Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography 
<skid@b...> wrote:
Now, we are chomping through those 27 gigs and have recently 
bought into a new Iomega
> system called the 'Peerless'.


I have always envisioned a box of some kind, that would hold 
slide-in harddrives. Maybe the box had five or six slots, and you 
could just slide in another 75gig drive as you needed the 
storage. 

Someone recently sent me a link to a device that was similar to 
this, but I've lost the URL now. So I know that it at least exists in 
some form.

The burning-CD business got old really fast, especially when 
Toast won't run in the background. And 640megs is just not 
enough space to devote that much time to hogging your Mac. 
The ideal solution would be to do these monster backups at 
night, when you were leaving work, and then let it run as long as 
it needed to. I have now, in my G4, the 30gig that shipped with it, 
and then a second 75gig drive. They are now so cheap (IDE) that 
that Zip thingie seems overpriced to me, for the amount of 
storage that you get.

And this doesn't even address the issue of reduncancy. Now that 
you've got everything on a couple of drives, now you'd want all 
that backed up. And for me, I'd also want something where I 
could easily keep the backup data in a totally separate location, 
in case of fire. So you can see it could get complicated pretty 
quickly.

I'd love to hear any solutions that anyone has come up with, 
especially if it was in the 200-300gig amounts.

-Mark Tucker

PS. Harvey: Regarding the history/origin of your company name, I 
got quite a kick out of it. Thanks for the great story. I did end up 
feeling a bit "Baptist" as I compared my company name to yours. 
I also began to wonder what MY name would have been, if I had 
been in one of those clubs; maybe "Oreo DoubleStuff Cookie 
Boy", or "BarBQ Boy", or "Chubbie Boy".