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On Sat, 06 Apr 1996 14:21:13 -0800, Nadav <nadav@leland.stanford.edu>
wrote:

>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.

I've had 2 scsi Zip Drives for about 8 months now - and love 'em.  I
bought the scsi boards from Iomega also (about $50- ea.) - was
extremely simple to install.  Mine work close enough to hard disk
speed for me - I run all kinds of software directly from the zip
disks.  I absolutely love it - what a great way to now only add
"indefinite" space to your hard drive, but great for backing up, and
organizing programs.  Wouldn't go without them now.  Good luck to you!
Karen Forte
karefor@ix.netcom.com