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The advantage to the Zip is that the drive is cheap; the media is
basically just a scaled up floppy. The cost of the drive relative to
media starts to diminish after the first GB or two and is irrelevant
after the first 10-20 GB. Thus, what you really want to know is:
1.) what is the most archival media
2.) what is the cheapest media (lowest $$/100MB)
As such, zip should probably not be considered truly archival-that is
if having available list mode data 3 years down the line is a life and
death matter. For that matter, it is not that cheap either, once you
start to accumulate Gig's of data. I don't know much about the Jaz,
but my (uneducated) guess is that it is more or less a big Zip.
Optical, by no means dead, are quite archival and have cheap media.
The drives are more expensive than Zip and a bit more than Jaz.
CD-R drives are still more expensive, but have the cheapest media.
And, it appears lots of folks like 'em.
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From: Tom Mc Closkey
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 1997 5:13 PM
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: best long-term data storage???
We currently use an optical disk drive to store all our flow data. I
understand that this drive is out of date now and we would like to get
another method.
I think the 3 choices are:
1] zip drive
2]jazz drive
3]writeable CD
I would appreciate advice/opinions as to which is best for long term
reliability, ease of access, cost, transport of data to another
computer,
etc. Or is there any other type of data storage that I'm
overlooking?
Thanks,
Tom
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Director, Flow Cytometry
North Shore University Hospital
Biomedical Research Center
350 Community Drive
Manhasset, Long Island, New York 11030
ph: 516-562-4844 [office]; 516-562-1135/4641 [lab]
3/11/97 2:19:15 PM
E-mail: thomasm@nshs.edu
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