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

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (41008)	12/20/1997 3:14:00 AM
From: KM	Respond to of 58324

<< he personally has owned six Jaz drives. All have failed. And of the 61 he has sold since July of 1996, 31 have failed. He now steers customers to the SyQuest SyJet.">> Well, at my firm, we have 14 Jaz drives which are heavily used 7 days a week and have been for at least 18 months since we bought them. None have failed. Plus, in the past few weeks, I have had the opportunity to push at least three new computer purchasers at our firm into the Jaz/Zip rather than the Syquest products, which they had heard of. They found the argument that Syquest may not be here a year from now to be compelling. Now if I can get through one weekend without seeing that damn SparQ ad in the Saturday and Sunday papers, I'll be happy.

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (41008)	12/20/1997 6:39:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re steering people away from Jaz. Anyone in need of reassurance about what the direct channel is recommending, go read the Jan 1998 Computer Shopper page 80 article on Buying Backup drives, by Greg Keizer. It's a balanced article when it comes to describing the options, with Jaz clearly not winning on feed and speed technical merits or on price. But it goes on: My calls uncovered an almost universal recommendation - Iomega's removable, 1GB per cartridge Jaz drive ... Too bad Herbie doesn't really try to get a representative sample before he writes his column. Makes him look pretty stupid relying on one anti-IOM channel contact. P.S. to Andy: Let go, man. Let go. Specifically he found the following recs: Dirt Cheap Drives: Jaz Harmony Computers: Jaz and SyJet PC MAll : Jaz PC Zone: Jaz In a followup box, Alfred Poor found more mixed results. But It seems like it was mostly because he got some very poorly informed reps. They told him stupid things like he "wouldn't be able to write directly" to a Jaz like a hard disk, but rather Jaz was like tape!