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John Anderson (johna@magicnet.net) wrote:
: In article <4cl0bh$8gh@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) says:
: >I fail to see the huge benefit of an EZ cartridge, especially considering 
: >how fragile they are. Even at $20.00 even the price is close, but again 

: Where do you come up with this stuff.  How would you know anything about
: pricing or how the EZ drive was built.  Its seems fairly well made to me and

It should be rather obvious to you. Look at the drive. Open up a SQ270 
and an EZ135 and compare. All it takes is a screwdriver.

: it works just fine.  The EZ cartridge sells for $20 at Egghead and I doubt
: the price will go up in the future.

Even if it stays the same you aren't saving money. People keep saying 
they get more for their money with the EZ, but that's not true. At $14.95 
each, the Zip disks are equal to or less than per/mb than an EZ cartridge.

: case that comes with the disk and I don't throw the cartridge around like a
: floppy.  If the product is handled correctly then reliability does not
: appear to be a problem.

In a perfect world I suppose that's true. Plain and simple: accidents
happen. You have to take it out of the case at some point. I don't have
the time to pamper these things, especially when there's deadlines to
consider and business to do. I want the media I use for transport to be 
very rugged so I don't have to babysit.

: I use generic NCR PCI controllers running NT, Win95, and WFW.  However the
: IDE EZ on an EIDE card seems to get the best results.  Like I said I
: believe the ZIPs performance will not compare well against the EZ.  If your

No, it won't, but if you're looking for speed you should probably look 
beyond the EZ and get a system with a much faster drive and higher 
capacity. I see the EZ as a drive that's 'average' as far as being an all 
out removable hard drive storage system and 'average' as far as a rugged 
data transport system. I think the Zip is 'lacking' when you talk about a 
hard drive replacement, but it *excels* as a transport system.

I have some gripes with Iomega and the way they handle some aspects of 
business, but I do acknowledge that they have a good product here for 
what it's targeted to. Most of their products have been reliable in the 
past, and I'm glad that I can now I have an alternative to SyQuest (which 
I have used almost exclusively for years).