ZIP Drive

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I just bought a 2-year-old Roland VS-880 with a V-Expanded upgrade, & the memory is starting to get filled up. From what I gather, a ZIP drive is the cheapest backup method at present.

Does anyone else know of a better and/or cheaper method to back the memory up? I'm a new Roland user, so I'm checking with as many veterans as I can.
 
I had the VS880 and now the 1680. I used zip and dat.

What's cheaper than a zip drive?
Unless you mean the zip disks. The dat tapes are cheaper but the machine obviouly is not.
 
I use a Castlewood Orb Drive for my Fostex. It costs $229 plus a cable or cable adaptor to co from a mini 50 pin to a SCSI 25 pin. It comes with on 2.2 gb disc. Disc cost $39 each, but that gives you the equivalent space as @ 10 Zip discs. I think you will have a hard time beating the cost to memory ratio of the Orb. It has worked flawlessly. check out buy.com.

Peace, Jim
 
How is a Castlewood versus a Jaz? I had a friend who used a Jaz because it had more storage space, but it crashed on him.
 
Jaz drives are problematic.
I'm sure there are lots of scsi units out ther.
 
Jaz drives are available in 1 or 2 gigabytes. So the Orb easily compares and the are much cheaper per disc. It is my understanding that the company that makes Jaz drives also went belly up, but I could very well be mistaken. Zips seem to be the most popular, so swapping with other musicians would be easier, but I really believe that Orb will start to grab the musicians' market--its bigger AND faster and made specifically for audio/visual use. I can't praise the Orb enough. It has been one of a few music equipment buys I haven't regretted at all.

Peace, Jim
 
Iomega.
They made zips and jaz.
Glyph is another great unit out there.
 
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