Zip/Jaz Drive Backup - Other Remote Data Backup Service Option

Iomega Zip and Jaz drive data backup is another of the options to remote data backup service.

Zip and Jaz drives are fragile, unstable, and outdated storage technologies best known for the "click of death" class action lawsuit that forced Iomega to offer refunds to its customers for drive failures back in 2001.

Backing your critical data up on a Jaz drive provides only minimal protection against only one type of data loss...hard drive failure and nothing else. Zip and Jaz drives can easily be damaged, lost or stolen. Jaz drive backups are rarely taken offsite, and are not secure, automated or full featured.

Top 10 disadvantages of Zip and Jaz drive data backups are:

1. Affordability: Obsolete Storage on Clearance
   • 100-250 MB Zip disks cost $10-15 each.

   • 1-2 GB Jaz disks cost about $15 each.

   • You can pick up Iomega drives on eBay for $30-100.

   The remote data backup service from Remote Data Backups Inc is most affordable and uses current technology.

2. Reliability: Failure-Prone Media and Drives
   • The "Click of Death" is the distinctive sound that the drive read head makes when it becomes misaligned and cannot read a Zip disk.

   • This motion can also ruin the disk, making it impossible to retrieve data from it without professional intervention. Trying to read the damaged disk also can ruin other drives; a destructive loop can be created between detecting an error and attempting to clean the head upon encountering an error.

   • Zip / Jaz drives are subject to the same risks as internal hard drives. Are notoriously failure-prone, vulnerable to degradation by the environment (oxygen, heat, sunlight, humidity, liquids, dust) and human mishandling (dropped, stuck in drive, misplaced, etc.).

   • Like other magnetic backup media, Zip / Jaz disks are frequently damaged by electromagnetic fields emitted by a variety of devices.

   • Other common causes of data loss: bad sectors, operating system-dependent formatting, corrupt/unreadable file or directory, or even the file/directory disappearing entirely, in extreme cases the disk may not be readable by the device.

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3. Data Protection: Not Offsite is Not All Right

   Unless they're taken offsite every night (which rarely happens regularly), Iomega backups fail to protect data offsite against natural disasters (fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, lightning, solar flares and earthquakes), not to mention theft, disgruntled workers and sabotage.

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service backed up data is offsite every minute.

4. Data Security: Portable Media = Inherent Risks
   • Where do you store your Zip / Jaz backups -- a safety deposit box, a glove compartment, a purse, a night stand, or don't you know? Proper storage is in a climate-controlled environment.

   • Is your data encrypted or even password protected?

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service backed up data is completely secure, encrypted and security key protected.

5. Convenience: Manual Process

   Daily Zip / Jaz backup administration is time-consuming manual process requiring human interaction (inserting disks, selecting files or running backup software, labeling & cataloging, taking offsite, etc.).

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service does not have any of these requirements.

6. Data Capacity: Limiting and Cumbersome

   Zip disks store 100MB to 250MB; Jaz disks store 1-2GB.

7. Remote File Access: Not Available
   • You can only access your data backed up on Zip / Jaz through your local network if the disk is in the drive and shared.

   • You may have problems if you try to access the data from an operating system other than the one that formatted the disk.

   • You may be down for a full day if you store your backups offsite.

8. File Versioning: Complicated and Unreliable

   Finding and accessing specific data backed up on Zip / Jaz can be a hassle, and does not use delta block incremental technology.

9. Full System Backup: Cumbersome, Failure Prone

   Backing up your full system to a Zip / Jaz requires specialized software and often multiple disks. Recovery typically is an extremely cumbersome, time intensive and failure-prone process.

10. Support: Iomega won't help

    What will you do when a backup Zip / Jaz holding data you desperately need to recover no longer works, can't be found or is destroyed along with your PC?

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