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In article <maschoenDKxI4x.KJ1@netcom.com>, maschoen@netcom.com (Mitchell Schoenbrun) says:
>For some users, the difference could be important.  I mail disks
>all the time.  I like the fact that I can pop a Zip cartridge
>in the mail without worrying.  I also like that I can read-write
>password protect the data while in transit.  I'm sure I could
>send an EZ, but I suspect that at a minimum I'd need a layer of
>bubble wrap, and possibly a box with styraphome peanuts.
>-- 
I believe most of the concern about EZ media fragileness is conjecture.
Even though the EZ media is a HD platter in a plastic shell, it comes
with a substantial case for transportation.  Not only that, there is
no hard drive R/W head to damage the media on impact.  The cartridge
itself seems pretty substantial as well.  I'm not going to beat one
of these things to death just to make a definitive analysis.  They
do cost $20!  However, if someone wants to send me $20, I will purchase
a new disk, beat the tar out of it in progressively greater degrees of
abuse, do surface scans along the way, and post the results for all to
see.  Make that $40 and I'll do one with the case and one without.

John Anderson