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Non-Tech : Iomega:Zip drives - a "standard" for the PC?

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To: John Guo who wrote (128)	5/28/1996 4:00:00 PM
From: Jason Wortham	of 156

OK People, think about scale. Rewriteable CD's have no real chance of overpowering the Jaz. >Insight is selling an external 4x 650Mb rewritable CD drive for $625. $625 for a rewriteable disk that is still slower than the Zip, Way slower than the Jaz, and still manages to be smaller than the Jaz? Where's the upside? The only upside is people's preconcieved notions that optical is somehow endowed. There is this bewildering love affair with optical. Believe me, if you dislike running software off of a zip, you will sure as hell dislike the speed of a mere 4x drive. DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY USE TERMS LIKE 2X and 4X? It's because if they compared it in standard terms it would pale to most drive media. FYI 1X = 150KB/s or 0.15MB/s 4X = 600KB/s or 0.6MB/s Zip = 7X or 1.0MB/s Jaz =37X or 5.6MB/s (with 10MB/s Burst) The argument that rewriteable drives will come down in price is self defeating. If a less cash flow product is able to improve it's technology, guess what a greater cash flow product will do? There will be a market for this. It will mostly involve authoring CD's and software piracy. Rewriteable CD's are out, and making way for DVD, which is also projected to cost too much.

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