I am well aware of the click of death, which is why I do not keep a
cartridge inserted unless I want to use it. I have been burned by tapes
too. I was trying to restore a backup a few years ago and the tape
despooled. Luckily, that was very shortly after I bought the Jaz drive, and
the Jaz had a good backup. IMHO, the most reliable backups are on CD-Rs,
but they lack capacity.
In other words, if backups are important get a good backup system, whcih
may cost a few bucks. (BTW: I have had tapes ruined on commercial Digital
drives as well as on 9 track mainframe drives).
Benjamin Scott wrote:
> A word of warning: IOMega's stuff has a general reputation of being only
> fair in quality and design. For a lot of interesting reading, check out the
> "Click of Death" home page <http://grc.com/clickdeath.htm>. Their stuff is
> fine for day-to-day use, but for backups (which, I assume, are important to
> you, otherwise, you wouldn't be making them), I would recommend something a
> little more reliable.
--
Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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