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In article <4ch216$dvq@shore.shore.net>, ay@warpsoft.com (Albert Yarusso) says:
>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).
>
I'm pretty sure the ZIP drive wouldn't be fast enough to satisfy my needs.
Especially the parallel port version.  However, this opinion is based on
the specs of the drive and not an actual evaluation.

As for the ZIP drive establishing a defacto standard, I believe that it is
too early to make that prediction.  Prices on removable media drives (MO drives)
with large capacities (1/2 GIG or more) have been dropping like rocks.  
Sysquest (the EZ 135 people) have been serving the Apple market for years 
and have a line of higher capacity drives as well.  I choose the EZ 135 
because it represented a price & performance level that would allow me to 
afford to buy several drives and get the performance I needed.  I figure
that within the next 12 months 1/2 to 1 gig removable disks will be in
that price range and I'll be moving up.

John Anderson