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In article <4cl0bh$8gh@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) says:
>SyQuest is going to have to do a lot of hurting to keep the price even 
>THAT low, and I don't consider that low. It's not unlikely for Zip disks 
>to drop by at least 33% and EZ carts to go up by the same amount. Only 
>time will tell though.
>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 
>you've got fragile bulky cartridges and a drive that was designed by 
>cutting as many corners as possible (EZ is a version of the SQ270).

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

>If reliability isn't an issue, then the EZ might be a good choice. My 
>data is important. I don't put things on disks that I don't want to 
>keep. I bought the Zip based on reliability and cost/meg ;-)

Again, what mades you the expert.  I haven't had any problems with reliability
and people I've known with Apples haven't had problems with their Sysquest
drives.  It's interesting that you been bad mouthing the Ez but don't
appear to have any experience with it.  I'll admit that I use the carrying
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.

>: If anyone has an idea how to perform some definitive performance testing,
>: I would be happy to contribute my time to test both SCSI and IDE EZ
>: drives and post the results.  We should all try to use the same programs

>Not only programs, but controllers. Which do you have? I can make a Zip
>SCSI look fairly bad with the 'right' controller. ;-)

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
primary goal it to transport data like a floppy then the ZIP may be the
right choice.  However, I need the performance of a removable hard drive.

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.

John Anderson