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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AFS
- Date: 19 Apr 96 22:53:41 GMT
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- Salutations Thomas for on the 18 Apr 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- TO> >BTW, I keep having this nagging feeling that I should have bought the
- TO> >EZ135. Anyone willing to tell me I was right to buy the Zip..? :)
-
- TO> I`ve had them both... now I have only the Zip and wouldn`t have it any
- TO> other way. :)))
-
- Indeed, I tend to agree.
-
- The Zip might be slower but I'm far happer having the media scattered all
- over my desk unlike the suspect SyQuest media. There's also the matter of
- disk changing. It takes ages with SyQuests and it's practically like
- floppies on the Zip. Zip for me amen.
-
- Interesting thread on AFS there. I use it myself with no hassles. The lack
- of decent recovery tools is somewhat of a problem but when I've had crashes
- and AFS partitions corrupted, I was always able to copy the material off
- without any other aid.
-
- For me the speed (and lack of slow head thrashing on slow access drives like
- the Zip) coupled with cool features like built-in undelete and rollover
- log-files (how DID I live without them) make AFS almost indespensible.
-
- However, it's not for everyone. Just like the MUI debate, I really wish
- people would just either use it or not and stop trying to convince everyone
- else it's (A) Gods gift to computing or (B) Satan Spawn and thoust duty to
- rid the universe of thyne scourge.
-
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