I have one which I bought about 2 years ago. I've used it twice. It takes
so long to back up and verify that I can't be bothered. I back up my docs
and favourites to floppies. Soon to invest in CD-R which takes about 30
mins to write 650Mb
Dr G Mark Trowell
Highbridge Medical Centre
Pepperall Road
Highbridge
Somerset
TA9 3YA
Hakunamatata
(01278) 783220
(01278) 795486 (Fax)
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Evans
Sent: 15 July 1998 16:37
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Subject: Ditto Max tape drives
Does anyone in the group have experience of these drives? I just
bought one to back up my hard disk at home and it seems to take
forever. It is plugged into the parallel port of my laptop and takes
at least 20 hours to back up 900 MB of data. Only about 2 hours of
this time is the backup itself. The rest is the "compare" function
which verifies the backed up data. Is this normal for external tape
drives? I expected it to be slow but not this slow!
I was thrown off Iomega's automatic helpline system after waiting on
hold for 10mins and have now sent them a fax, but I'd be grateful for
anyone else's opinion on this.
David
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Dr David Evans
Cardiff
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