From: Benjamin Kai Kia Koh (benkoh_at_Stanford.EDU)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 16:37:07 EST
As others have already mentioned, CF and Smartmedia are comparable in
price, but the adapters for CF are much cheaper. As for Zip disks, beware
of the click of death. Never carry anything you can't afford to lose on a
Zip disk. For temporary transport it's probably OK, but it's not very
fast. But for infrequent once-a-day access, it's fine speedwise.
Alternatively, if you have CD burners at both ends, burn a CD and leave it
unclosed, that way you can continue to add data until it fills up. Or use
a CD-RW disc. If you want it small, use the 3 inch discs - they hold 156
MB vs 650 MB on the 5 inch disc. Same speed issues as the Zip though.
There are also more exotic possibilities, such as using your other
equipment such as USB-based MP3 players to transport data... in particular
the hard drive based units such as the Archos 6000 are especially small
and convenient (6 GB holds plenty of music AND data), though the
flash-based players usually support 64MB or larger cards too. That would
let you listen to music on the way to/from work as you transport your data
:-)
Benjamin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Julian Thomas wrote:
> In <001901c16630$14d74480$9c32ab80_at_math.hawaii.edu>, on 11/05/01
> at 09:28 AM, "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu> typed:
>
> >What other solutions are there? I have both USB and pcmcia available on
> >both ends, prefer not to have to buy two zip or LS-120 drives.
>
> CF is definitely a nice way to go, and, with Dani's latest driver, plays
> nicely in a PCMCIA slot in OS2 (you need an inexpensive Delkin or similar
> adapter that just matches up the pins).
>
> One other route is a parallel port zip drive - carry both the drive and
> the zipdisk.
>
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