From: Paul Curtayne (niche at domain tinet.ie)
Date: Wed 05 May 1999 - 16:56:22 IST
so, not robust then? :-)
> On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 04:47:03PM +0100, Paul Curtayne mentioned:
> > any opinions on the Jaz drive from Iomega: removable 2 GB disks
(~75
> > quid each), SCSI interface., cost 299 sterling inc. VAT.
>
> You should ask yourself. Do you feel lucky ? Friend had one, and
backed up
> a load of stuff onto 3 disks & wiped his system. Then dropped the
disks.
> Two died, one survived. When he found this out, he went home,
killed his
> family, threw biscuits at his dog, sold his bootfloppies to
Microsoft, and
> ate 40 square meters of carpet till the nice men came for him.
>
> > In PCW this month it's the editor's choice of removable media and
by
> > far the fastest of the test machines which included Iomega zip,
Lacie
> > MO 640 (magneto-optical), and Panasonic LF-1500(magneto-optical)
and
> > superdisk10X. (uses either CD or a "unique phase change method by
> > laser")
>
> I'd prefer to back stuff up to paper rather than trust an IOmega
Jazz
> drive.
>
>
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