storage nightmare...

[Mday]

so we have...

in the floppy world:
zip 100, zip 250
LS120\superdisk
Caleb's 144
the old 1.44
and sony's recalled, never came out again 200MB.

and now in the optical world:
FMD, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R, the GD-ROM (1 GB CD ROM as in what dreamcast is using), CDR, CDRW, and sony's recent 1.3 GB deal.

so what do you have... and what do you want and need.

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i have the 1.44, everyone does. and a CDR\W drive. do I want more, YES. do I need more, not yet.

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what we need is a scalable storage architecture. but we won't get one. Sure the floppy is too small, but in some cases, the zip100 is too big and expensive.

DVD-RAM is full of capacity with their 2.0 having 4.7 GB per side. and is even affordable (to some) but we don't have a real standard there yet. and DVD-ROM is being set with their "multi" support for all those conflicting flavors...

I am talking about us consumers here... it's not a real rant, but it's getting annoying... stupid companies coming out with new stuffs when there already exists standards which have not even been finalized.

 

[IsOs]

I'm using CDR & sometimes Zip 250/100.

 

[Goi]

ZIPs are pretty convenient, but the media is pretty expensive compared to good old floppies and CD-Rs. Personally I use ZIP100s and CD-Rs too.

 

[GC23]

I am using a cdrw, you cant beat them one dollar for 650mb of storage. And they are nice and fast too. There is no point in getting a zip drive with rewrite speeds faster than 4x now.

 

[Gunbuster]

Dont forget the drive that writes to the roll of clear packing tape

 

[MWink]

I have a CD-RW and have not been able to justify getting another removable storage drive. I have used many tape drives and all but one failed within a few weeks. I have also used a number of Syquest drives and they all failed too. I just don't trust anything but CD-R/RW anymore.