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primal@vt.edu (Primal Scream) wrote:

>And on the other side, the Zip is available in a Parallel port model
>with Internals soon behind, one of which has a 1.44mb FDD riding
>piggyback.  Zip also has a huge owner base and several vendors lined
>up to produce disks, which means disk price will likely drop.

After reading countless posts like these in the Sega and Sony
newsgroups, it sure is disturbing to find them here as well.  Although
Syquest takes it upon themselves to compare their drive to the Zip
(right on the box), there isnt much cause for a heated debate about
the two products.

I bought an EZ for myself after bringing home and testing a ZIP drive
for quite some time.  At this point I dont think one is "better" than
the other, but the ZIP serves a wonderful purpose as a portable
storage device, while the EZ is a little faster, permanent storage
device (uless of course you have a Powerbook with the SCSI port on the
back...you guys forget about Mac users when you talk about parallel
port devices).

An example:  We attempted to use the ZIP drive to store about 100 megs
of .WAD files (we like net Doom at work) and run them right off the
ZIP.  This doesnt work very well with the parallel model.  The game
pauses for a sec while the data is transfered from the ZIP as you
progress through the levels.  We got an EZ Drive and tried it and it
worked fine.  We moved the ZIP on to the workbench and installed all
of our utilities and software on a few disks.  When we build a machine
now we simply plug in the ZIP and install from there.  Its a
lifesaver.

So basically what Im saying is that at the moment each unit provides
similar but unique features.

Now if Syquest comes up with a parallel version of the EZ, that might
be something to argue about.  Of course the ZIP would be much lighter
and easy to handle...arg, now here I go!

See ya, Joe