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johna@magicnet.net (John Anderson) wrote:
>I take it that you are mostly interested in the portability of the unit
>itself.  If you just want to tote the media between work and home, I
>recommend the IDE version of the EZ 135.  It is fast (1.7MBytes/Sec) on
>an EIDE controller (CORETEST.EXE) and cheap ($170 w/o disk) the disks are
>$20 each and hold 127MB.  Of course you need to buy a unit for each machine.
>I have two external EZ scsi units and an IDE EZ and I think they're great.
>I'm more interested in speed because I work right off the drive. I also back
>up to the server every day, but I haven't had a failure yet.

Well, there were several factors in weighing my decision to buy a ZIP
or EZ135.  First, I only wanted to purchase one unit so I could easily
update my development environment on my home machine.  I needed the
parallel interface to do this, as neither my machine at home or our
work machines have SCSI interfaces (unfortunately).  And the ZIP media
seems to be a little more robust than the EZ Drive's.  It's plenty
fast enough for my needs (although an internal IDE version of the ZIP
would be nice) and 100MB vs. 127MB isn't really an issue.  And the ZIP
drives seem to be much more popular and I feel that the ZIP drive has
a much stronger possibility of becoming standard equipment over the EZ
Drive (being first to market certainly helps).

As it figures, I brought my ZIP drive into work yesterday and now my
company is buying several of them to make it easier for the developers
to bring their work home (ahh, cheap labor).  So now my ZIP drive will
sit at home and I'll only have to transport the media.  But even then
I'm sure there'll be times when I'll take advantage of the drive's
portability when I need to easily transport large amounts of data to
other non-ZIP equipped machines.

 ..Al