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John

> Pinnacle is one of the WORST of the bunch, quoting seek times over a
> small band of the disk's surface, instead of 1/3 stroke seek.  (There
> is a big difference between 1/3 stroke seek, and seek over 1/3 of a
> 50MB area, or some other misleading spec.)  Their drive is really
> fairly slow, and their marketing is very misleading. 

PMFJI, but I was wondering if you know anything about Pinnacle's new Apex
drive?  Does what you said above apply to *it* as well?

I've been thinking of getting one (well, either it, or Iomega's Jaz, 
whenever it's out).  I wouldn't have considered MO, but the specs on
the Apex appear to be "close" to a HD.  However, if I can't trust the
bloody specs ....

Ken

PS - You're right.  I just looked at Apex' spec, and see that the seek time
given is 1/3 stroke (19ms).  I - being the naive consumer that I am - just
assumed that that must be how all specs are given.  So how does this compare
to Jaz' seek time of ~11ms?  (Do I have to multiply x3?  Then my decision is
done; forget Apex!)