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Article #20762Re: Anyone know about IOMEGA Zip Drive or similar products?
From: Nadav
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 00:00
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Andreas Zollmann wrote: > Has anyone of you had any positive or negative experiences with the > IOMEGA Zip Drive? It is a portable Drive that uses floppy-disk sized > media with 100MB capacity. The great advantage of this product is that > you can have large storage to cheap costs (one 100MB cartridge is > $ 15,00). I would like to know if that product is worth buying it and > if it is really almost as fast as a harddrive. I am very happy with the Parallel Port version of the Zip drive. Very easy to install and transport. But it is nowhere near as fast as a hard-drive. The specs usually given are for the SCSI version, which is far faster. The parallel port, "accelerated" to the maximum setting with their software and my high-speed local bus EPP, is still only around 6 or 7 megabytes a minutes, I'd say. It's perfect for storage of multimedia files and for virus-resistant back-up and for transport, but I wouldn't run any applications directly from it. - N.
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