RE: Internal vs. External
Tombet,
There are four main considerations: installation
hassle, portability, speed, cost. If you don't
mind opening your PC and fiddling for fifteen
minutes, then consideration one is insignificant,
but if you do, then go with the external. If you
have to use the Zip on more than TWO machines,
or on one desktop and one laptop, then go with
an external, but go with an internal for a
single machine or with two internals (same
price as an external Zip Plus, and faster)
if you're only concerned with two desktops.
If you don't want slow speed, avoid the
external parallel Zip drive, which is much,
much slower than the alternatives. And for
cost, the internal's a good bit cheaper than
all the other alternatives.
In other words, make the internal ATAPI drive
your default choice and only take an alternative
route if the installation hassles, the number of
machines you want to use it on, or the inclusion of
a laptop in your mix forces you to an external choice.
And if you go external, try to go external SCSI instead
of external parallel, which is S-L-O-W.
This comes from my use of two internals,
one parallel external, and one SCSI external, and
it assumes you have a Windows PC, not a Mac. If you
have a Mac, I'm not the one to give you good advice.
Cheers, Tom (long IOM) |
