Go CD-RW! It'll hold 650 MB of info, zip drives I've seen hold up to 250
MB (there may be bigger ones but they might be costlier). If you've got
the bucks, add both; you can back up text files onto a zip disk, and keep
your images for the CD-RW drive.
The only thing with the CD is that you have to backup your files in a
particular way, which drives me nuts. You need to make a "mirror" file
of what you want to dump into the CD disk, then you activate the write
feature. If you don't fill the whole disk with info (let's say you still
have 300 MB left), and now you want to fill the rest of the disk, but
you've got to figure out how to do that without writing over the info you
already have. Since I haven't spent enough time with my CD-RW at home, I
can't advise intelligently, but I know you can do it. Regarding the zip
disk, it's like a big floppy, so no real "set up" is involved.
I'd still advise going CD.
O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, CA 92886
(714) 993-5075 ext. 224; (714) 528-0544
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:35:26 EDT Laura Bajuk <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Hi all - I'm another non-registrar having to answer a question in
> coll. mgt.
> - I'll also check the archive for previous inquiries...
>
> Situation: We're buying a new computer - PC - and need to decide how
> to store
> large - esp. image - files.
>
> To use a writeable CD-rom or a Zip drive... that is the question...
> and we
> keep arguing here at work. Does anyone have any advice before we buy
> equipment?
>
> Please shoot me a note - or vote - off-list at [log in to unmask] -
> I'll be
> happy to accumulate the results and pop a master tally back to the
> whole list.
>
> Many thanks... Laura Bajuk, ED
> Los Gatos Museum Assn.
> PO Box 1904, Los Gatos, CA 95031
> 408.395.7375
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