🚀 go-pugleaf

On 4 Jan 1996 14:02:08 GMT, johna@magicnet.net (John Anderson) wrote:

>In article <4ceqj1$bef@shore.shore.net>, ay@warpsoft.com (Albert Yarusso) says:
>>
>>I just picked up a ZIP drive and although it'd be nice to have the
>>speed of the SCSI version, I couldn't even consider it because *none*
>>of the machines (at home and work) that I'll be using the drive with
>>have SCSI controllers.  I've found the performance of the ZIP drive to
>>be quite acceptable, especially if your BIOS supports the EPP parallel
>>port architecture.
>>
>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.
>

Unlike the gentlemen before you, SCSI is not an issue for me, and I
choose the ZIP over the EZ because of media density: the data capacity
divided by the dimension of casing.