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Re: What is the best cross-platform portable storage?
Subject:Re: What is the best cross-platform portable storage? From:Buck and Tilly Buchanan <writer -at- WF -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 14 Sep 1997 09:27:32 -0500
> To: tech-shoret -at- ubique -dot- com
> Subject: What is the best cross-platform portable storage?
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 1997 6:46 AM
>
> Sometimes I must transfer large graphics files of many Megabytes between
my
> PC and the pre-press/designer's Mac. Likewise I sometimes must do a
simlar
> transfer between > From: Richard Jaffe <richj -at- soundesigns -dot- com>
a colleague's PC and my own.
>
> I want to purchase an external drive of some sort that can accomplish
this.
> I am a little confused because there seem to be many choices, including:
> Olympus optical disks, Syquest SyJet, Iomega Jaz, and CD-Recordables.
>
> I have been doing a lot of checking on the Internet and I still find that
I
> am confused so I am turning to you my colleagues who know the local
> situation.
>
> Reactions have varied. It seems like each media has its boosters and
> detractors. And then there are other Jokers in the deck, such as the
> graphic artist who told me that even if I burn a CD-R on my PC her Mac
> won't be able to read the format.
>
> So I am very confused. I want to buy just one technology, one that works.
> It won't bother me to drag the drive to the other guy's shop as long as I
> can install it quickly on their Mac/PC.
>
> What do you recommend? And if you do have a recommendation, could you
> perhaps provide the phone number of the local distributor so I can
contact
> them directly?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
> Rich Jaffe,
> rjaffe -at- inter -dot- net -dot- il
> \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
>
Cross posted from tech-shoret (Israeli tech writer list)
I have an Iomega Ditto 3.2gig parallel port drive which has been nothing
but trouble since I bought it.
Appears to work when backing up, then gives me an "unrecoverable hardware
error" when I need to restore to the same system.
made from cheap, very thin plastic that has begun to change shape from
sitting on top of my cpu.
Never again on Iomega!
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Buck and Tilly Buchanan
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