[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTUREDOS/ARACHNESUPPORT
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:58:45 +0930
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:22 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:
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> Interesting...I have no experience burning CDs, only with using read only d
> rives, but I do now have CD burner, and a DVD one as well. Anyway, I've no
> t had a drive failure with CD, but have had several with 3.5 in diskette dr
> ives, not to mention after a few dozen uses the diskettes reliability leave
> s much to be desired. For backing up small amounts of data, diskettes were
> OK, but I would not want to backup my Dell's 160 gb hard drive with them,
> even though it isn't very full.
That would be a massive job even with CD-ROMs -- at 700Mb each it would
take over 200!
And with DSHD floppies well over 100,000!
A removable HDD would be the better way to go in that case.
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