Cheapest Backup Solution?

[marknolan]

Hi All,

Finally I think I have found myself a really cool and portable ackup solution with up to 90GB of Data!!! Yes up to 90GB... and best of all - its affordable!

This may be old news to you guys - but its new to me:

Check out: www.iomega.com --> REV

Direct Product Link

I think its about USD 350 for this baby!

What do you guys use for backup or transport - except for External Harddrives...?

Greetings from damn cold switzerland,
Mark

[tele_player]

IOMEGA are still trying to justify their continued existence. You'd do better buying standard drives and caddies, and mounting them in a Firewire box, a la the 'Firedock' which used to be plugged here a lot.

I wouldn't touch IOMEGA stuff; they screwed people with Zip drives (serious drive problems, lots of lost data), and Jazz drives (expensive media, lost data, a serious flawed idea of using unsealed flying head drives). Way, way back, Iomega were at least revolutionary with their Bernoulli drives; but it's just taking the company a long time to die off.

[Chris Cavell]

Best price per gig is still spare hard discs with data CD's coming in second (when purchased in bulk)...follow that with data DAT backup.

[VanDerGraf]

FYI, I have had awful experiences with Iomega products.

I ended up transferring everything I had from Iomega drives to DVDs, after about three Iomega drive deaths. Plus their media is comparatively expensive.

[tele_player]

FYI, I have had awful experiences with Iomega products.

I ended up transferring everything I had from Iomega drives to DVDs, after about three Iomega drive deaths. Plus their media is comparatively expensive.

Exactly.

I'd go for hard disks and DVD-R.

[K.B.]

ditto. Hard drives and multiple DVD copies. A good way to back up to an external hard drive is to put a drive in an old PC and network it - you're bound to have other uses for the second PC, like use it for going on the net and keep your important work at a remove.


BTW London's having the warmest winter I can remember. Plenty of trees still haven't shed their leaves, and some of those that have are having a go at pretending it's spring and are showing signs of budding! Meanwhile the birds seem unusually active...

[tele_player]

BTW London's having the warmest winter I can remember. Plenty of trees still haven't shed their leaves, and some of those that have are having a go at pretending it's spring and are showing signs of budding! Meanwhile the birds seem unusually active...

English birds can be quite fetching, at least through their teenage years.

[K.B.]

Hmm...

The little foxes are at it too...

It's a shame really, cos though from an evolutionary standpoint it's a good idea to have as many offspring as poss in a year, the fact is none of any young born in the next few weeks will survive a genuine winter. It's a tough life out there living in a hole in the ground, or whatever.

[Matt Whritenour]

Best price per gig is still spare hard discs with data CD's coming in second (when purchased in bulk)...follow that with data DAT backup.

i just got a good deal on dvds

Fuji 50 pack 8x dvds 29.99 - 20.00 rebate
i had to pay the tax on the 30 so it came to 11 something per bundle
which was like 24 cents per dvd while cds i am paying like 22 cents per cd

so i picked up like 5 bundles of dvds, it was during thanksgiving weekend when i bought them

[K.B.]

Do bear in mind that no-one yet knows what the true long-term stability of DVD media is.