On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 19:43, David E. Fox wrote: > > Indeed. The industry seems to have decided that the floppy is a dead > > media -- that's fine, as they do suck, but I wish the industry would > > Well they are convenient but offer so limited storage as to not be > all that useful anymore. And zip / ls-120 aren't as common and nowhere > near standard equipment. Media cost is also very expensive. CDRW seems > to be more ubiquitous, but then there are reliability problems and > it's harder to send files to the CD (you can't just mount and copy > files). > > These days, hard disks are so inexpensive (in many cases a small HD > is cheaper than zip disks) that one would think that HD would be > transportable. Dunno about how reliable a HD is that is carried around > from place to place, but if you can get one for $79 these days that's > 20 gigs or more, maybe that's a direction to pursue. It would be > easier if there were hotplug like connectors so you don't have to > open the machine up. I've seen them used though. > > > CD-R: Write once and it's gone. > > CD-RW: Write a few times, but each write needs to be done in a different > > tape? it does have a tape mechanism and is fairly transportable, that > is, if the target machine has a compatible tape drive, which would not > be all that common on PCs. It's still very common in other arenas. > > On some older machines, you could even boot from a tape. > > > Jack Coates >
One media I've used for small installs that works well is compact flash. A 64mb cf disk with an adapter shows up as an ide device and you can boot from it. I had it hooked into an old pentium 233 for a while (till enough hw died that isn't easy to replace.) It works well, read/write speeds aren't too bad either. Especially for something like a firewall/server like I had. James
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