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

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (41946)	1/2/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

SparQ vs. Jaz As I was cruising through the <alt.iomega.zip.jazz> newsgroup, I also found this interesting message: Subject: Jaz Discs Can't Read, Iomega's Policy Author:Tory Skyers I'm an IS manager at a small company, I've worked on at least 150 computers in 1997, and never have I seen the amount of problems with one companies products like Iomega. I have 4 jazz drives i service at different locations, I have found that one jazz cart written to in one location will not read in another. The drives work o.k. (if you call a jazz o.k. sic) but the disks refuse to be read. You cna;t copy to or from the stupid thing, I've been reformmateing download, and updating till i'm blue (that stupid color the zip is) in the face and the dam thing still refuses to read a disk written on othe jazz's. I have searched all the news groups and can tell you that Iomega is one crappy ass company that is lucky more people don't sue them than already do. Their products do not work as advertised, they fail OCNSTANTLY, they work sometimes, and overall they suck. I have another problem, why is it that i go and buy something from a company then have to turn around and spend 20 dolalrs to talk to a technician? IS that because they know their products suck, and don't want people calling them!? Or is it because they suck and can't hire peopel and must charge for their tech support. I hate this drive it has cost me time and money and to all those peole reading this newsgroup, i have only this advice to offer you: If you can return your iomega product, DO SO NOW! I mean like RIGHT NOW! Go buy a Syquest. We have 3 Syjet's and countless EZdrives, and Flyers. I've had exactly one problem with them, and thats when someone spilled coffee inthe drive (after some cleaning the thing still works great). The Syquest drives are faster, cheaper, and more relaible that the stup Iomega crap, go to www.syquest.com and find out for yourself. Their support is free if you bought it, and they like their customers. I can run an os from a syjet with little worry, can;t say the same for a jazz. To all that have purchased an Iomega product and are nto happy, simple boycot them, and make sure all your friends know not to buy any of their stuff. The loudest voice in thes industry is money, stop buying their stuff and they start to listen. end of frustrated pissed off and pissed on ex-Iomega user! -Tory BTW if anyone can hep with this disk problem i'd liek to knwo, i have some stuff on a jazz that if lost could be really really bad :-) for one of my clients. Looks like Iomega could be in for some serious damage when Orb hits the shelves, and SparQ sales get even hotter when more drives are shipped. Oh, and one more thing...Sony will crush Iomega's Zip.