Recording your own CD-ROMs
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Law firms can employ a combination of software, recordable CD-ROM drives and blank CD-R discs to create custom CD-ROMs. CD-R promises to improve law firms' data backup, integrity, distribution and access while providing cost-efficient data storage. Law firms must consider hardware requirements, including external and internal devices, when choosing between CD-R drives. While internal mechanisms are less expensive, external units operate with various computers and lack installation difficulties. Law firms should invest in the fastest CD-R device that they can afford to avoid recording errors, and they should also invest in an external hard drive to transfer recorded data. Software considerations are based on the firm's intended use, OS, client base and distribution network. Attorneys should look for the most versatile package available that supports their recorder's speed rating, can create ISO 9660 discs and includes knowledgeable and reliable technical support.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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EZ Drive vs. Zip drive: which is best?
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Syquest's EZ Drive removable cartridge drive installs more easily and is faster than Iomega's Zip drive, although both perform very well, backing up as much as 1GB in 25 minutes. The drives also access information as quickly as if it were on the hard drive. The drives' portability is another asset, since users can carry information on the road and find a stored file more quickly than they can find a file stored on tape. AN IDE version of the EZ Drive installs quickly, and users need only edit the CMOS to acknowledge the new hard drive and reboot the system. The Zip drive requires that users first install a SCSI adapter board, which plugs in easily but causes conflicts with the jumpers, the I/O addresses and the interrupt request ports. Relatively inexpensive, the EZ Drive costs about $100, and the Zip is about $150, while the removable disks cost some $20.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1996
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Turning paper into bytes
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Law firms can leverage optical storage libraries to replace manual, cumbersome and expensive paper-based filing systems. A California law firm, Berding & Weil, has implemented a document imaging system featuring an optical jukebox on a PC-LAN, providing efficient document storage and deletion. Berding & Weil rely on optical read/write disks in an HP Optical Jukebox to provide quick document access from anywhere within the organization at any time. Berding & Weil's CFO, Alfred McKelvy, Jr., maintains that the firm's innovative electronic alternative to traditional paper documents facilitates improved document storage and better index and recall information. McKelvy insists that HP's jukebox features product and service dependability along with superior performance and simple network integration.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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