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John Anderson (johna@magicnet.net) wrote:
: In article <4ct35l$3lc@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) says:
: >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 bought the EZ drive because it was fast AND cheap, unlike the other removable
: hard drive alternatives.  What is it with you Zip guys?  Apparently you don't
: want us EZ owners to have our cake and eat it too.

No, I don't mind, but I think the Zip stands a much better chance of 
replacing the floppy drive. For a number of reasons that I've pointed out 
before, I think the EZ will be nothing more than any SQ drive has been in 
the past. If Iomega doesn't mess things up, the Zip is (IMHO) destined to 
be the new standard that replaces the functionality of the floppy.

If you want an EZ, fine, but I don't think it's targetted well enough to 
replace the floppy. I also don't think it's a good drive to pick if you 
are going to be transporting disks to and from "wherever"

: needed to purchase several drives.  I did't want to spend 3-4X that amount for
: the drives and 3-6X for the media.  The ZIP drive was too slow, so the EZ was

What do you mean? Compared to the Zip? The Zip isn't 3-4x the cost for 
the drive, and as I pointed out, neither is the media. In fact, per DISK 
cost is less, and in certainly quantities, per MEG cost is the same or 
less. (Zip disks are sold in 1, 3, and 10 packs.)

: a problem with the Zip, it makes a great BIG!! floppy and I would certainly
: recommend it to others, as long as performance (read Speed) is not an issue.

I get ~790K/sec with my 040 Mac using the Zip disk. Most operations that I
perform (18MB or less) equate to less than 20% difference (10 seconds). 
It's not really that noticable to me. I imagine the parallel Zip is much
slower. The seconds I save with the EZ are not worth the lesser
reliability and clunkier drive (press button, wait for spin down, manually
crank out the disk..) along with the fact that there's no cheap option for
the EZ (== to the 25MB Zip disk) for 'throwaway' purposes.