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Non-Tech : Iomega:Zip drives - a "standard" for the PC?
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From: JP Sullivan5/27/1996 10:44:00 PM
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You should visit the website. I did and wasn't impressed at all. For starters, the cost of the disks will be expensive. Although the literature mentioned an ambiguous "less than $2 per MB", it still works out to be much more expensive than a Zip disk. Even at $1 per MB, it is still byte-for-byte 5 times the price of a Zip disk and TEN times the price of a Jaz disk ($1 vs. 10 cents per MB). True it is much faster than a Zip drive, but it is about the speed of a Jaz drive (perhaps marginally faster since the specs. list the avg. seek time at <12 ms vs.12 ms for the Jaz--forgot what the transfer rates are). Then again, people who really want the speed need to process many large files at a time (me, for instance--currently I have a project that has about 170 files at 70-80MB each) so I would rather pay for a Jaz drive and get the 1GB disks. Put simply the Avatar is too expensive to fit in anyone's budget.

And finally, if this product were a real threat it would be all over the place by now since the website information is dated August 1995. You have to wonder why there hasn't been a peep out of anyone until recently. And if the company has just gotten off the ground, I'm afraid the picture looks even worse for the product. Which Zip owner is going to dump his drive and collection of Zip disks to buy a $370 replacement and $170 disks (again, assuming the cost is $1 per MB, more likely it is closer to $2!)?

What do you think? Am I missing something here?
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