Yet another HD question

[billh@lsid.hp.com (Bill Harris)]

I may be joining the company of those whose HDs are giving out.  My TMS
Shadow 120 took a number of tries to get spinning yesterday (yes, I saw the
post yesterday about stiction :-% ), and I've started a full backup to
(ugh) floppies.

If this thing dies, I'm looking for any advice based on people's experience
as to a good direction to go.  Here are some alternatives; does anyone have
any experience that suggests one is better than the others?  (BTW, it's an
unaccelerated GS with a RAMFAST Rev. D [I forget which release of the ROM]
and 4+MB RAM.)

    Buy a new SCSI-2 drive.  Put it in the existing TMS case and use the
    same power supply, if possible.  I've seen 830MB for $195 and 1GB for
    around $250 locally.

    Buy a new external SCSI-2 drive.  I don't have prices for this yet.

    If I do either of those, backup to floppies becomes worse than
    prohibitive.  I could see if I had the money to buy a ZIP drive
    (~$200?) and backup to that, or I could get a SCSI tape and let the
    RAMFAST do backups in the background. 

    I could buy a ZIP and use it as the main and only disk.  It doesn't
    have as much room, but I could give each person in the family a
    separate disk (complete with system).  I suspect that this could get
    awkward, and I don't know how easy backups would be to other ZIP disks
    (as in, would the Finder allow copies from one disk to another and
    prompt properly for disk swaps?)

Since I use Prosel/16 for disk management, it seems to make sense to
partition any such disk such that the partitions can be all ProDOS.

Comments?

Bill

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Bill Harris
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