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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: KM who wrote (32080)10/15/1997 8:00:00 AM
From: Kunal Taravade   of 58324
 
New perspective about IOM/FUJI situation:

Fuji's revelation that they own the ATOMM technology
for HD disks (like Zip) should come as no surprise to
people who have followed this stock for >1 year, it
comes as no surprise to me. I think a lot of us on
this thread are needlessly agitated about the
consequence of this. Let me try to put things in
perspective: In the removable storage technology,
there are two important parameters:

1) Density of data (i.e. disk capacity)
2) Speed of data access

#1 depends on magnetic coating density and
#2 depends upon proprietory algorithms to
access data and also custom drive control
electronics for optimum 2-way data transfer.
#2 is harder to implement because of it has
more variables, more levels of integration.

Fuji owns #1, IOM owns #2 wrt Zip. With recent
advances in magnetics and narrow wavelength lasers
it has become commonplace to manufacture HD magnetic
disks (Yesterday IBM announced a laptop hard drive
that holds a whopping 8GB of data!!). Let me
emphasize that ANY of the major magnetic media cos.
has the ability to make HD disks. The important
part of the equation that separates the winner
is SPEED. THis is the trump card for the Zip. As
long as it maintains that, it is unlikely that
a floppy compatible HD disk will be able to seize
market share away from it.

So, don't lose sleep over Fuji's ATOMM technology,
especially if the SONY disks only transfer @3.5MB/s.

Regards,

Kunal
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