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From: Sriram Swaminarayan
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <3169a538.59264276@news.ucla.edu>,
Andrew Chiang <andrewc@seas.ucla.edu> wrote:
>On 8 Apr 1996 14:45:28 GMT, <102425.2720@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Performance:  ZIP performs closer to the speed of a floppy than a hard disk.
>>
>I would disagree with that...  Perhaps you're referring to the
>parallel port version.  The SCSI version while definitely no where
>near the speed of a hard drive, is at the same time not even NEARLY as
>slow as floppy...  I would say it's at least 4-6 times faster than
>floppy...

The access time on the Zip drive is ~26mS.  I think this
is independent of whether it is SCSI or parallel.  The 
interface just determines how fast you can move data off
of the drive (I think, and I'm probably wrong)

--Sriram

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From: bakraa@engin.umich.edu (Sriram Swaminarayan)
Subject: Re: IOMEGA Zip
Date: 1996/04/09
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