Saving Your Precious Por... er Pictures

[Diva]

Which do you use more often and which do you think will be the longest lasting?

[Redallnite]

I don't know, which one is better??

[warza bidul]

cd is betterm faster than zip disks and lighter. Zip disks are an obsolete technology...

[whitecrow]

CD's - use anywhere (pretty much) ZIP Disk? geez..any one still got one of those dinosaurs?

[Diva]

I use my zip disk at home. :p

[Ice Man]

I only use ZIP Files. No ZIP drive anymore. I store ZIP files onto a CD. The DINO at home gets really confused when you turn it on. So, I leave it alone now.

[Poseidon]

<California beach blonde (from "clueless" )> Zip drives are SOOOOOO yesterday. We got usb 2.0 jump drives now. They are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool!!! </clueless>

[Diva]

What the hell is a jump drive?

[JakeD]

The little baby thumb-sized drives that plug into your USB port...they're pretty damned cool.

[Lilith]

* Lilith grabs Pos by his jump-drive

Hey, this is larger than advertised!!! :p

[xplosiv]

Well there wasnt an option for HDD or DAT drives, let alone DVD Ram / DVD +/- or network storage ... but anyway ... i use a 120GB HDD, its so efficent and you cant get nuffin better.

[Lilith]

...Unless it has a mechanical drive failure. What do you use for backup?
:p

[Marsbert]

I use cd cus I aint got no zip drive on my poor lil laptop. Or I use good ol' floppy disks when I'm heading down to the printer. I love my jumpdrive, it's so cute and bright red, my favorite color!

;)

[Redallnite]

So no one agrees, no body answered my question!!! :mad:

[jred]

Originally posted by Redallnite
So no one agrees, no body answered my question!!! :mad:

Well, CDs typically hold more data, and you are more likely to find another PC with a cd-rom than a zip drive. There's nothing wrong with zip disks, just think of them as really big floppy disks that not all computers can use.

In the past, there was a problem with zip drive reliability (google for "click of death"), but I haven't paid attention to whether or not they've fixed it. I assume they have.

Personally, I back everything up to CD and then never access it again. I want a dvd writer so I'll have less spindles around :)

[entipy]

Sorry, Red! I think CDs are better. :)

[Redallnite]

Thank ya'll!!! I do mean that!