Re: IOMEGA Zip

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From: Roger Kendall
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:00

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bakraa@engin.umich.edu (Sriram Swaminarayan) wrote:

>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
>
>

I think no one in this world knows what track to track access means.
Sorry, it is only one of a multidimensional set of variables that
determine throughput (which is what SHOULD be measured, and often is
NOT).

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From: kendall@ucla.edu (Roger Kendall)
Subject: Re: IOMEGA Zip
Date: 1996/04/10
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