Sadly nothing from Iomega seems to be anything less than totally unreliable. If you can actually get your PC to recognise Zip dirves on two sepaeate occasions you're doing really well. My latest box has a2Mb Jaz drive, so far I've had three total disk failures (can't even format afterwards) and one replacement drive...
I agree with other posters that there's no chance at all of having students do sensible back ups, but you might try using something like Iomega's Quiksync which automatically makes generational copies of files - maybe you could set it to keep copies of everything sent to the A: drive. Of course this would probably mean you would up with large numbers of downloads from Napster....
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Sadly nothing from Iomega seems to be anything less than totally unreliable. If you can actually get your PC to recognise Zip dirves on two sepaeate occasions you're doing really well. My latest box has a2Mb Jaz drive, so far I've had three total disk failures (can't even format afterwards) and one replacement drive... I agree with other posters that there's no chance at all of having students do sensible back ups, but you might try using something like Iomega's Quiksync which automatically makes generational copies of files - maybe you could set it to keep copies of everything sent to the A: drive. Of course this would probably mean you would up with large numbers of downloads from Napster ....