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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Subject: Re: IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?
- Message-ID: <DoDGJ9.F0p@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- References: <4ic5cm$h1h$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> <1872.6649T181T1524@ridhughz.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 17:57:09 GMT
-
- Ridwan Hughes (fox@ridhughz.demon.co.uk) writes:
- > 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,
- ^^^^^^
- Better make that the media for these drives.
-
- > i.e. the Jaz drive will cost less than a 1Gb ard disk, the Syquest will
-
- I paid $300 Canadian (~$215 U.S.) for a 1.08G NEC SCSI drive from a clone
- shop. I found asource selling it at $207 U.S. I don't think any of the
- removable media drives is as cheap as that.
-
- > 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...)"
-
- > Ridwan Hughes, Glos. fox@ridhughz.demon.co.uk - Nonstop Amigaholic
-
- BTW how do one back up these drives ? :) How many swaps does it take to copy
- a 1G drive ?
-
- K. C. Lee
-
-