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I wouldn't recommend Jaz drives either for the same reasons.  Also, our
experience was a while ago and that along with other issues made us switch
to CDs (before the availabity of DVD).

Susan Garfield, Manager
Confocal Microscopy Core Facility
Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis
CCR, NCI
Building 37/4134B and 4137
Bethesda, MD 20892



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From: Reece.Jeffrey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: DVD data storage


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I caution anyone contemplating using Jaz drives for anything crucial.
Perhaps
their quality control and reliability is better these days, but I had lots
of
problems with the disks and the drives after switching to them when they
first
came out.  I too am interested to hear from those using DVD-RW, or whatever
they're called.

Jeff Reece
Confocal Microscopy Center
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
P.O. Box 12233, MD F2-02
111 Alexander Drive
Bldg. 101, Rm. F219
Research Triangle Park, NC USA  27709
Phone: (919)541-0311
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>    -----Original Message-----
>    From: Carol Heckman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>    Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:43 PM
>    To: [log in to unmask]
>    Subject: Re: DVD data storage
>
>
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>
>    JAZ discs are the usual way of writing large files, at least in the
>    gigabyte range.  They are reasonably compact and re-writable.
>
>    If you go to the IOMEGA site, I will bet they tell how much you can
>    hold on each disc.
>    Carol Heckman
>    (Bowling Green State University)
>
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>    >
>    >Hi-
>    >This is totally off-topic, but have any of you used
>    writable DVDs to
>    >store data?  I have people generating files too large for
>    CDs.  We're
>    >running linux on a PC.  Or, are there any other good
>    options out there
>    >for data storage (files about 1 GB).
>    >Thanks-
>    >Sarah
>    >
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>    >Sarah Locknar, PhD
>    >Director, Neuroscience COBRE Imaging Core
>    >University of Vermont
>    >802-656-0413
>    >-----------------------------------------------------------
>