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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (57092)7/10/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: FruJu   of 58324
 
>By the way, one obvious problem with the Zip 250 is that doubling the >storage roughly halves the number of disks that a consumer will >likely require. It's not a great evolution for the business model to >increase the volume of unprofitable equipment sales at the expense of >the cash cow..

Actually, with the rate that file sizes increase these days, I don't think an expansion like that would make too much difference to the tie ratio by the time it's released.

For example, the other day, I wanted to backup a piece of software to my ZIP. Even after I had compressed the entire folder, it came to 105MB, and I had to split it into separate sections and save it to two ZIP disks, which was a pain.

Things are just getting bigger and bigger, and with fast network connections, people are downloading more videos and sound files off the web which will only add to the amount of data storage required.

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