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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (7589)	2/21/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	of 10072

>The much better model is the flash and IBM removable disk model. With these devices, there is NO COST BURDEN on the ultimate manufacturer. People here keep throwing out this cost/Mbyte calculation. This may be important in the long run, but it misses the most important item: initial cost for the first Mbyte.< But it is fair that the consumer will make a choice as to how they will store and transfer data. The IBM drive is slick but it is $500 for a single drive. Granted, it holds plenty of data but are users willing to pay that much for the memory. Reminds me of the Kitty Hawk drive from HP. The press loved it but the cost was prohibitive. Clik! is a pretty handy device. I don't see it as a competitor to Zip at all it merely compliments. I've got two Clik! drives and they perform well. The removable market is broadening. I went to Best Buy yesterday to pick up a second computer for home. Bought an ATAPI Zip for it as none was included with the model I wanted. Overall a high percentage of the machines have either a Zip or a SuperDisk in them. SuperDisk is making a push now. Becoming more prevalent and makes more sense when integrated. Almost got one of the machines with a SuperDisk but my other home machine has a Zip. Also, still don't care for the speed of the SuperDisk but I am test driving one of the 2x SuperDisks in a system at work. Since people keep talking about COD around here let me offer my perspective. I have between machines at home and work, over 20 Zip drives of all flavors including 250's. I also have over 100, closer to 150 disks. Most of these are used very heavily in a software testing environment. In the three years I've been working with these I've seen the COD on one DISK, never a drive. If a disk loses its calibration track you can get the COD but it is really a disk problem. Anyway, the Zip and Jaz drives I have have demonstrated lower failure rate than any hard disks or CDs we've worked with.

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