Re. Superdisk

["Glen M. Robinson" <gmrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I would like to get the lists thoughts on my intended purchase of a Super
>Disk, verses the option of a Zip disk.

     I work as a research scientist for Imation, the company that developed
SuperDisk.  My job is to develop optical test methods, such as optical
interferometry.  I had no involvement in the development of SuperDisk, but
followed its development with great interest.  Its inventors are good friends of
mine.

     I personally own two SuperDisk drives (I get no special discounts), the
external parallel port and internal versions, and have an external parallel port
drive on the computer in my cubicle and another one on the computer for one of
my interferometers.  I do not own a digital camera or scanner so I have no
experience storing images.  I use SuperDisks for storing laboratory data and
miscellaneous data files.  Most of my interferometry measurements are 1.7 MB in
size so SuperDisks are ideal for this application.  About 70 of these files can
be stored on a disk.

     I back up "My Documents" on a SuperDisk each day or so and transport it
back and forth between my home and laboratory.  Each morning I write a short
Internet e-mail note to twenty-one of my friends and relatives and store them on
another SuperDisk.  All my data files are stored in subdirectories on a
SuperDisk, such as months, family, Imation, church, personal finances, and other
such categories.

     I have never heard of a SuperDisk failing.  SuperDisk drives are backward
compatible with older diskettes, which makes them especially useful.  A
SuperDisk stores 120 MB of data, which goes a long ways with most type files.
One disk easily stores all my newsletters for a year.  None of the three disks
that I daily use is close to being filled up.  It is becoming common for data
files to exceed 1.44 MB, the storage capacity for conventional diskettes, so the
need for large diskettes is becoming important.  For example, my Quicken backup
files are over 2 MB in size.  SuperDisks are a great storage medium for most
digital photographic images, which can be quite large.

     In my highly biased opinion I think SuperDisk is an excellent product.

Glen Robinson