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- From: wnear@epix.net (William Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Ez Drive anygood?
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 18:00:21 GMT
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- On 25 Jan 96 12:11:09 +0500, John S. Burger articulated:
- <>
- <> On or about 24-Jan-96 08:12:52 William Near typed the following words about
- <> "Re: Ez Drive anygood?". My reply is thus...
- <>
- <> WN> On 23 Jan 1996 19:31:35 GMT, hector o'sexual articulated:
- <> WN> <> I was thinking of getting a Ez Drive instead of a Zip. They're roughl
- <> WN> <> same amount of money, The EZ stores more info, and they're IDE compata
- <> WN> <> the get-go. But has anyone forged ahead and used one for their own?
- <> WN> <> needed and how well does it work?
- <>
- <> WN> I just bought the external SCSI version of the EZ135 about
- <> WN> three weeks ago. It works great and all I did was hook it to
- <> WN> my SCSI controller on my A2000. They are nice.
- <>
- <> WN> The only thing I don't like is the clunky way of ejecting a
- <> WN> disk (you have to press a button and then manually slide a
- <> WN> lever over.) Its benefits over the ZIP far outweigh this
- <> WN> minor inconvenience, though (IMHO).
- <>
- <> What benefits far outweigh the ZIP?
-
- I really don't want to start this thread/argument again. :-)
-
- The EZ135S costs the same amount as the ZIP does, but it
- offers almost twice the xfer speed and has 33Mb more storage
- per disk.
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