Another example of a person I doubt actually uses the technology he writes
about can be found on CNET where today Daniel Grotta gives advice on archiving
digitized images. After considering and then dismissing Zip drives as a
long term solution, Grotta writes:
CDs, on the other hand, are reliable and will work with most backward-compatible
drives. Sure, it may cost more to burn information onto a CD, but you don’t
want to lose those baby pictures, do you?
That may have been the case 3 years ago, but has Grotta shopped for CD-Rs lately?
I just bought a back of 50 for $35. That works out to about one-tenth of a cent
per megabyte of CD-R storage. On the other hand the last 100mb Zip disk I bought
cost me $15 which works out to 15 cents per megabyte. Far from being more expensive,
CD-R media is more than 100 times cheaper than a Zip. Initial hardware costs
might be somewhat lower for the Zip, though CD-R prices are hitting rock bottom
for lower end drives (which are still much faster than Zip), but anyone who
does any serious amount of archiving would quickly recover that additional cost.
Source:
Saving
and archiving images. Daniel Grotta, CNET.Com, August 8, 2000.