On Saturday 04 December 2004 16:53, billy@MIX.COM wrote:
> Greg Turnbull <ghturnbull@earthlink.net> said -
>
> > Symantec's website does indicate compatability of 9.0 with USB drives in
> > contrast to previous comment: "Works with a wide range of hard drives
> > and removable media, including CDR/RW and DVD+-R/RW drives, USB and
> > FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices, and Iomega® Zip® and Jaz® drives"
>
> Anyone here have any success restoring with a Jaz drive ??
> I have many of these and would love to use them, but I'm not
> spending any more money on backup software just to find out
> they are not accessable when trying to restore.
>
> Billy Y..
I would not use a Jaz drive for anything really important. Three times
now, I've been in situations where a disk had problems, flaky problems
such that in one case I had to write code to read and read and read 'till
I got a complete file. I think Jaz drive media always suffered from
water problems. Certainly they were never great storage, and these
days they are insanely expensive. I'd stay away from them for anything
other than transfer operations, where if the disk produces an error you
can get the original data again (not exactly useful in most cases).
--STeve Andre'
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