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- From: fox@ridhughz.demon.co.uk (Ridwan Hughes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:05:21 GMT
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- On 15-Mar-96 16:20:38, Scott Sutherland wrote:
- > Hello All!
- >
- > I have been seeing television commercials over the past few weeks
- > touting a new mass storage drive, the IOMEGA Ditto, which is
- > supposed to have an 800 Mb+ storage capacity and cost not much
- > more than a ZIP drive. Does anyone know about this drive? Does
- > anyone have experience with the Amiga compatibility of this
- > drive? I am seriously considering one of these drives, so I would
- > like to have as much info as possible.
-
- I don't know about the drive you're on about, but this is from
- Amiga Computing, April 96:
-
- "The race to provide swift reliable removeable media is hotting up even
- more with the announcement of IOmega's Jaz drive, Syquest's Syjet, and
- Pinnacle's Magneto/Optical drive. IOmega's Jaz drive will have 1 Gig
- capacity and access the data on it's disks at about 3MB/second, the Syjet
- is supposed to hold 1.3Gb and will transfer data at 4MB/second, but Syquest
- say it will have a burst mode for motion video and other time critical
- functions that will boost that speed even more.
- Pinnacle's Magneto/Optical drive might not be as fast as the other two,
- but it will hold 4.6Gb on a single disk and read/write data at an
- impressive 2.4MB/second (Impressive for Magneto/Optical that is). All these
- drives should cost less than the current cost for the size drive they use,
- i.e. the Jaz drive will cost less than a 1Gb hard disk, the Syquest will
- cost less than a 1.3Gb drive, and the Pinnacle will cost less than a 4.6Gb
- drive (and will also act as a CD-ROM drive...)"
-
- Just thought you might be interested. Especially the Syquest's drive for
- use with motion video.
-
- (I know which one I'd pick...;)
-
-
- Rid (with an EZ135, seems a bit small now..) :)
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