Scott: Doesn't always eliminate bad disks. smart and friendly uses Adaptec as well and I've gotten bad disks despite a test before. Sometimes the disks themselves are just bad. In fact in all but one case I just put another disk in and was able to write to the new one. In that one case I discovered I had bad data... and was in fact able to use that disk for something else thanks to having done it as a test first. Anyway. CD-R/RW backups beat out ZIP/JAZ for many reasons. Sure they don't read back as fast. But they're permanent. And cheaper. I get 20 CDs for the cost of 2 Zips. and it gives me 13 gb of storage versus the 200 mb of the ZIPs. We won't even get into the absurd price of JAZ disks. I've got an old one of those sitting around as well.

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