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kevin c welch (kwelch@omni.voicenet.com) wrote:
: Is there someone here who has used BOTH a ZIP drive and an EZ drive and can 
: give an objective opinion regarding both?

I have used both.  The Syquest is a way better product but both can be 
useful in different situations.  The Syquest is good as a hard drive 
replacement, the Zip is good for archival and sharing data between a 
number of systems.

The Zip drive is less expensive, less capacity, slower, lacks a power
switch, and can only select scsi id 5 or 6.  I like the SCSI Syquest as an
additional hard drive, to load apps on, to boot various operating systems
on one system without relying on a boot manager. The Zip is good for
archival, as smaller capacity cheaper media is available, and the parallel
interface makes sharing with machines without scsi cards (especially
notebooks) convenient and economical.  I could realistically see running a
system with BOTH of them!  I would use the Syquest as my boot drive, and
load win NT, win95, os/2, win 3.11, and various linux distributions on
Syquest cartridges, and use the parallel Zip drive to share files with my
notebook, which runs windows.  If syquest comes out with a 1GB drive, I 
will be in line to buy one as soon as I hear about it.

I don't see why such a big argument, the differences are pretty clear and 
both are good to have around.