What ever you do, ORB or CD-R or RW, would be a better step than the Iomega
solution. Granted they have a huge installed base of product and they have
become the de facto removable storage device. However that being said, I
have been one that has had the misfortune of losing data due to the infamous
Click of Death on a Zip drive and a totally failed jaz drive. The Zip and 11
disks were replaced, out of warranty, which was nice. But I have a friend
who has had six Zip drives in his Dell. My jaz is a door stop. Non click of
death, not covered by extended warranty. All this said, the other thing is,
I belong to the Pasadena IBM user group, huge btw, and Iomega was there  in
August. They seem to be unable to admit that they have a problem, click of
death. They don't deny it, they just don't acknowledge it. Not a company
that I care to deal with again. My ten cents. I vote for CD-R.
Brad Loomis
Los Angeles, CA



> > or, if you'd like to try something new and promising, get a Castlewood
> > Orb internal or SCSI or USB. Parallel Orb is no better than
> Zip, only larger
> > disks.
>
>
>    The ORB does sound nice, but the SCSI PC drives have never made it to
> market. I spoke with Castlewood and they keep promising they're coming
> (mid-September to October now is their latest prediction), but without a
> fast reliable SCSI interface I wouldn't be interested in their drives.
> The SCSI drives are being manufactured overseas (from the US) according
> to the ORB spokesperson.
>

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