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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert read who wrote (40297)	12/17/1997 12:46:00 PM
From: John Solder	Respond to of 58324

A few points on this otherwise slow day. I pitty Nomai if they think they can get into a price war pissing contest with IOM and win. ZIP data disks are not like cheap interchangeable casette tapes. If you buy a cheap tape and your deck eats it you lose Voodoo Lounge. If your el cheapo data disk dies you lose your data and possibly ruin your drive. What user is willing to risk that to save $1 ??? I'm sure you will see IOM putting a warning on drives that due to the precision and engineering fault tolerances of IOM drives that IOM would not recommend using non IOM disks and doing so could result in data loss or drive failure, which would void warranty. The user risk would be too great, therefore the disks will not catch on, and Nomai will bleed to death slowly, similiar to SYQT.