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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Turetzky who wrote (904)	6/21/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

>>If you read the article, it says the drive has a PC card connection and is intended for devices including digital cameras. So it sounds more like the Clik drive. << Incorrect. The IBM Microdrive is a CompactFlash Type II form factor, which is about 1/3 the size of the PCMCIA type II Flop! The IBM Microdrive is significantly smaller in size than any Iomega Flop! in fact, the IBM Microdrive is smaller than the bare Flop! disk itself! Iomega's PCMCIA Flop! drive will not work with ANY current or announced digital cameras.

To: Ken Turetzky who wrote (904)	6/21/1999 9:43:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 5023

Ken - The IBM Microdrive costs around five hundred dollars. For that you get a very nifty little 340MB hard drive which can be used anywhere you can find a CompactFlash slot, which includes lots of digital cameras. It also works most places you can find a PCMCIA slot, since it comes with an adapter. That's 500 bucks for 340MB. Click costs around 200 bucks for the PCMCIA version. For that you get a drive which can be used in most places you can find a PCMCIA slot, and you get one 40MB disk. But here's the big difference. With the IBM Microdrive, if you want to have more storage than you started with, you have to buy another drive for another 500 bucks. With Clik!, you add storage in increments of 40MB, for about 10 bucks a shot. That would be about 100 bucks for each additional 400MB. I think that the markets for Clik! and the Microdrive overlap to some extent, but they don't overlap completely. - Allen PS: I've seen one reference in the press, and several here, to Clik! being overpriced because it's 40 megabytes for two hundred bucks. Viewed that way, when Zip was introduced it was 100 megabytes for two hundred bucks. Yet Iomega has succeeded in selling 25 million of them. Perhaps that's due to the fact that most consumers realize that the total possible storage is infinite with removable disk devices.