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I’ve written about the LS-120 on this blog before<\/a> but I thought about it again today.\u00a0 You see, yet another Micro Center sales paper showed up.\u00a0 There were big sections for USB flash drives and SD cards, but nothing listed for organizers.\u00a0 I paid a visit to eBay to find a bunch of SD travel cases aimed at family vacationers, but nothing for desktop storage and organization.\u00a0 There was absolutely nothing for USB flash drives either for carrying or organizing.<\/p>\n

Today’s product engineers are really a clueless lot.\u00a0 None of them take into account existing practices and infrastructures when designing a new toy.\u00a0 Yes, it is all well and good to make a USB flash drive key ring, but if you want your new media to sell in large quantities it needs to find a niche in the backup market.\u00a0 Engineers of yesteryear knew these things.<\/p>\n

The Floppies<\/h2>\n

First we had the 5 \u00bc inch floppy which replaced the unwieldy 8 inch floppy.\u00a0 Rather than replace it, most engineers found ways to double its capacity until it reached 1.2Meg.<\/p>\n

IBM fought an up-hill battle when they introduced 720K 3.5 inch floppies.\u00a0 We already had 1.2Meg floppy drives in our machines combined with a stack of disks and multi-drawer floppy organizers capable of holding a hundred or more floppies per drawer.\u00a0 Yes the 3.5 inch had a hard case and could fit in most suit shirt pockets, but they didn’t hold as much.\u00a0 Then IBM pushed the storage capacity to 1.44Meg.\u00a0 The storage increase combined with the introduction of laptops pushed the 3.5 inch floppy into the world.\u00a0 Floppy organizers and carrying cases appeared for the new media size.<\/p>\n

Tape<\/h2>\n

Most people were neither patient enough nor rich enough to use tape as their primary backup.\u00a0 The tape drives which could be purchased for under $400 were ice-melting-in-winter slow and typically only held 120Meg.\u00a0 Later they boosted capacity to a claimed 250Meg, but, that was only if things being backed up weren’t already compressed.<\/p>\n

CD-ROM<\/h2>\n

The 5 \u00bc floppy people were a bit pissed with all of this.\u00a0 They went off and talked to the people who were designing the CD-ROM and guess what?\u00a0 The media for the CD-ROM just happened to be designed so people could re-use all of those 5 \u00bc media organizers and transport cases.\u00a0 Early versions were read only, but provided software vendors with a method of shipping a single media unit instead of boxes of floppies.<\/p>\n

Backup Media Storage<\/h2>\n

Notebook users still wanted a convenient method of backing things up.\u00a0 Low and behold the LS-120 appeared on the market and just happened to be the exact same size as the original 3.5 inch floppy.\u00a0 In fact, you could read and write those 3.5 inch floppies in the same drive so it became the defacto standard drive in laptops.\u00a0 Later models could store 240Meg on a single disk.\u00a0 All of the same 3.5 inch floppy containers worked for these new disks so adoption was quick.<\/p>\n

The CD crowd came out with both CD-R for the regular end user and CD-RW for those wanting to be just a bit kinder to the environment.\u00a0 Yes, CD-R media sells in spindles of a hundred for $5 if you shop around, but landfills are only so deep.\u00a0 Neither of these media really solved the \u201cworking backup\u201d problem.\u00a0 They were supposed to solve the long term backup problem until studies showed the media only retained its data for about five years unless you purchased the very expensive \u201carchival quality\u201d version of the disks.\u00a0 Still, very few items last the 7-12 years which could be required either in court or by the IRS.<\/p>\n

Backup Rotation<\/h2>\n

Rotating project backup (writing or coding) really doesn’t have a better solution than the LS-120 today.\u00a0 Yes, many people are just alternating between two USB hard drive enclosures and holding their breath, but, that’s not good.\u00a0 Hard drives made today are not of the same quality they were during the peak of SCSI server drives.\u00a0 Back then a 5 year MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) could be trusted.\u00a0 Today you find out IDE and SATA drives achieve their 5 year MTBF by putting in fine print the drive is to remain in power saver mode 70-80% of the time.\u00a0 SAN administrators have to continually point this out to MBAs when explaining the cost of a 1TB SCSI based SAN vs. the sub $100 1TB SATA drive.<\/p>\n

Many people work as writers, business analysts, technical architects, etc.\u00a0 We all have one thing in common.\u00a0 The bulk of what we create for each project can easily fit inside a 120Meg boundary.\u00a0 Usually we can backup multiple projects onto and LS-120 and keep a rotating set of backup media on our desk with special copies stored at a friend’s house or some other off-site location.\u00a0 The media is both cheap and durable.\u00a0 It is fast enough for backup purposes and supported by most Linux and Windows versions.\u00a0 To top it all off, most of us have something which looks quite nice to store the media in.<\/p>\n

\"wood<\/p>\n

Until somebody comes up with something nice that will let you keep a rotating set of backups organized for the other forms of media trying to fill this niche, the LS-120 will continue to have an active market. See that nice big label to write on? Good luck finding what you are looking for on one of these.<\/p>\n

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pile of thumb drives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Off-site Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most of you carry the one thumb drive you saved a backup copy of your files on in the same backpack you carry your laptop. You’ve never considered and most likely never heard of off-site backup. This is where you keep a copy of your backup in a building that is physically different from the location of your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I want to keep something important, I copy it to LS-120, put the disk in my shirt pocket and take it home. When you lose your backpack you lose everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about the LS-120 on this blog before but I thought about it again today.\u00a0 You see, yet another Micro Center sales paper showed up.\u00a0 There were big sections for USB flash drives and SD cards, but nothing listed for organizers.\u00a0 I paid a visit to eBay to find a bunch of SD travel cases aimed at family vacationers, but nothing for desktop storage and organization.\u00a0 There was absolutely nothing for USB flash drives … Why the LS-120 Still Survives<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,805,197,808,807],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-technology","tag-backup-media","tag-disk-storage","tag-ls-120","tag-super-floppy","tag-supperfloppy","bnm-entry"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy the 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He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++\/Qt touchscreen\/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the \"Zinc It!\" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome \"The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer\" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there \"The Minimum You Need to Know\" book series was born. Three years later he wrote his first novel \"Infinite Exposure\" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of \"The Earth That Was\" trilogy: Infinite Exposure Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. 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