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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (9631)	10/21/1996 9:34:00 PM
From: Triluminary	of 58324

Dale, Nomai compares itself against the ZIP drive... it should be comparing itself to the Jaz drive ... >>The Nomai 540MB Drive and cartridge operates on hard-disk technology allowing for greater storage space, durability and speed versus the floppy-diskette platform that Zip uses. Additional benefits over Zip include: -- 3 times faster data access times -- 3 times faster data transfer rate -- 5 times storage capacity -- Almost half the cost of Zip media per MB -- Zip = $19.95 @ 100MB/20 cents per media MB -- Nomai = $59 @ 540MB/11 cents per media MB << ------------------------------------------------------- Now here's my comparison of a Jaz to a Zip (and Nomai) -- 3x faster data access times than Zip (about equal to Nomai) -- 4x faster data xfer rate than Zip (so faster than Nomai) -- 10 times Zip storage capacity (about twice that of Nomai) -- Nomai = $59 @ 540MB -- Jaz = $99 @ 1GB (so slightly cheaper per MB) -- Jaz Internal ($399) upfront costs slightly worse than Nomai. Conclusion: Jaz slightly faster, more data storage, cheaper on a per MB basis, and just barely more expensive up front. I did the math. :) mark_b ps. The competition is getting hotter. Wonder what IO has up it's sleeve for Comdex?

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