From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_att.net)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 17:32:07 EST
Boy why would anyone want a zip drive anymore with the price of Cd
burners and outboard hard drives... I suppose if you want to exchange
files with people who have zip drives its fine, but there are so many
more reliable ways of backing up... anyone remember the "click of
death"?
I have an internal zip for my 600x but I never use it anymore... pc card
hard drives are the way to go for archiving
-----Original Message-----
From: Juan Vizoso [mailto:vizoso_at_telcel.net.ve]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:39 PM
To: Thinkpad List
Subject: Zip drives
hello,
I want to buy a Zip drive, but I'm having difficulties in selecting one:
The options, as far as I know are:
Ultrabay 2000
External USB
External Parallel
I will use it regularly on the thinkpad, but once a month I'd like to
backup an
external computer (I don't have access to a real network, but I can
easily
connect the computers via Parallel Port (that's what I usually do for
the
backups)...
The best solution i figure would be an external USB model and use it
directly on
each computer to be backed-up (just 3 computers), but one of the PCs for
backup
doesn't have an USB port (is a work machine for invoices and stuff and
uses
w95 - so I'm not installing USB there).
Is the Parallel port one too slow? Is there a way to use a converter to
use a
USB one through a parallel port?
What would you do in this case?
BTW: I could easily use a Superdisk or something since I'm not really
sharing
the data.
thanks in advance
juan :J
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