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In article <4cmoba$o7b@comet2.magicnet.net>,
John Anderson <johna@magicnet.net> wrote:


>I like to see honest objective evaluations on the new groups.  Not people
>bad mouthing products just because they're pissed at the manufacturer.  Your
>evaluation of the EZ doesn't seem to reflect the product accurately.  I really
>would like to see some honest speed comparisons between these products because
>I believe the EZ drive's performance is going to be the decisive factor for
>some people.

When I got the ZIP drive the EZ was still vaporware.

It is not the fastest thing I've ever seen.  

I've gotten just about 500KB/sec read/write through the
FILESYTEM using iozone on both SCO's Unix and Novell's
Unixware.   I don't have and DOS type benchmark utilities.

I suspect the 1542CF is a bit slow at times - I'm getting about
1.7MB/sec read/write through the FS on the above on the Quantum
Empire 1080S - and I think that's a bit below par.  However
those performance tests more accurately reflect real world than
specific HD tests that quite often do only raw reads/writes.

I use the ZIP to archive sources, etc.  I use removeable drive trays
for two different HD's and if I turn the power off to the HD
the Zip will boot into DOS from ID 5.   If I set the BIOS up to
make removeables look like HD's the ZIP does look exactly like
a hard drive - that is counter to one comment in the thread
that the EZ looked like an HD while it infered that the ZIP
didn't.   

I'm going to see how many of the other OSs I have will let me
boot from the ZIP (I currently have 6 different legitimate OSi)

Do you have any particular tests you'd like to have me try?

If I were buying today I'm not sure what I'd buy, but I've been
near Iomega products since the times of the 8" 10 Meg disks -
and before they were available for the PC platforms.
That had some influence on my decision.

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Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org | bill.vermillion@oau.org