Well I bought a 2gb HP drive for 355 several months ago. The JAZ's write speed, which is what I am questioning, is a mere fraction of this hard drives performance. Have you used a jaz?? Go and write a 10mb file to it.. It will take about 1/2 to 1 min ( I forget its been several months since I sent it back, but I did do various testing)
AS far as HD prices go, I found a Quantum 3.8 GB IDE for under 500 and I cannot find my source for the 650 price. I do know it was a close out... Anyway even if you use a 700 to 800 price, isn't the speed worth it??
My HD handles this same operation in around 3 seconds..
And again if your using a JAZ for backup, why not invest in a high performance tape drive? I have a connor 4gb model which backs up @ 30 to 40 mb per minute, tapes are around $25.00. More durable than JAZ, initial cost about the same, more storage..
As a Backup JAZ is simply to expensive, and as Inline storage it is too expensive given the poor performance.
Now your argument about HD prices stopping to fall, is silly at best. The media density have and will continue to increase making larger and larger HD available, at lower prices. These are dropping so quickly, and will continue to due so that it poses a real threat to IO, unless they lower their cost of media. Lowering the cost of the media has its advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is the lower margins, the advantages is that I think it would spur sales greatly. IO media is simply to expensive. Eliminate this problem (the expense of IO's media) and all of my arguments of HD vs IO fall through... Unfortunately, based on what I have learned, eliminate the profit margins on the media, and you eliminate IO's profit maker... Here lies the problem I've been dealing with... |
