Yea, like your kid won't take your 16GB thumbdrive with full Amiga TOSEC on
it and erase it so he can stuff some MP3s on it. If anything backing up an
old SCSI equipped system is much cheaper and easier then doing the same to a
new system just because of space requirements. There is also the easy method
of dumping the whole drive to the network server. Exactly what do people use
on vintage systems that is so important anyway that a head crash is the end
of the world?
Large scale storage just makes it easier to put everything you have on one
device so when it dies or gets lost or stolen you lose EVERYTHING in one
shot. FLASH drives are also unrecoverable when they do die for no particular
reason with no notice given. At least a spinning drive lets you know when
the bearings are going. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to install Windows
9 on 3000 floppies when I get a new machine, but we are talking vintage gear
here where some of the fun are those little obsolete ways of doing things
like installing software from spinning media onto spinning media (or from
punched cards if you are really old school).
--Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Souza
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 10:20 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: SCSI2SD
Are working SCSI drives really that hard to find where
people would rather
spend $75 on an adapter that can't do 1MB/sec that even the old antique
drives can beat? I think using a USB thumb drive is more about convenience
being able to connect them to a modern PC to load up on programs then
about finding a working SCSI drive.
Everyone thinks this way...until drive breaks, head locks on disk, there
is a head crash or something like that and you loose all your (unbackuped)
data :)
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