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Zip disks also have a history of experiencing the ???click of death,???
with a sudden wiping of the disk. This is not so much of a problem with newer drives,
but it still happens.
USB Keychain Drives and Solid-State Portable Drives
Keychain drives (called that because they are so small you can attach them to a keychain)
are so cool you might have trouble thinking of them as part of a serious backup program.
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Depending on what deal your favorite electronics or office-supply store is offering this
week, you can get up to 2GB for about $100, and often much cheaper. Plug the drive into
a USB port and copy any files you want. Keychain drives use flash memory to store data.
USB-based portable hard drives are also coming down in price, with 80GB of storage for
about $100, and 400GB for less than $500. openSUSE will identify these drives as SCSI
storage and mount them like any other volume on your system.
The key thing to remember about both types of drives is that you really need USB v2.0 to
make the transfer time worthwhile.


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