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- From: swmpthng@his.com (Swampthing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IOMEGA Ditto Drive vs ZIP, JAZZ?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 11:44:52 GMT
- Organization: Heller Information Services, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1600.6649T524T417@his.com>
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- >On 16-Mar-96 00:34:41, Dave Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com> wrote:
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- >"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...)"
-
- Wow... and to think I considering settling for either the current IOMEGA or
- SYQUEST drives! But 1 GB seems a bit large for removable media, I'd prefer
- something about half that size with the speed of the SYQUEST drives...
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- Swampthing
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