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

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42128)	1/3/1998 8:05:00 AM
From: OtherChap	Respond to of 58324

>By the time they are cheap enough for mass appeal, they will >be hopelessly obsolete. kinda like a 100 meg zip drive? let's get serious- with mitsubishi and panasonic planning to introduce IN JANUARY a 4.6 gig DVD-rewritable drive, with blank media selling for 40 bucks apiece, the zip drive is quickly losing it's appeal. 100 megs is simply not enough. but I guess everyone knows that, which is why Iomega's stock price continues to fall.

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42128)	1/3/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Edwin CD-RW is actually a good portable media and backup solution but they target for different market segment. The drive cost similar to a CDR about $350 to $400, media is around $18 to $22 each for 650MB. You are right on that it is slow, 300k/s write and 600 to 900k/s read. However having a CDR or CD-RW or CDR mean you have reliable backup good for 30 years or more. It also means you can compile your own music CD or even VCD. CD-RW is forward compatible with any multi-read device which all new DVD-ROM are. No doubt it will replaced by DVD-RAM in the future but it won't happen until 1999. The first generation of DVD-RAM will not able to write CD-DA and CDR which is a big drawback. One problem of CD-RW is that current OS has no native support of UDF but this will change when everyone has Win98. By that time you can use your CD-RW as simple as a floppy drive. Also many users has new multi-read enable CD-ROM will able to read (but no write) the CD-RW and all CDR. Pretty good compatibility. BTW, CDR is indeed a write-once media but with packet writing you can add or delete (hidden) data onto it incrementally until you fully used the 650MB. So it is not bad consider a CDR cost $1.50 to $3.00. This is the amount which most people don't mind to give-away. But of course for portable storage and data transfer, I will like to use Zip, LS120, Jaz, SparQ type of device :o) aC

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42128)	1/3/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Actually, Edwin, I can tell from your post that you are wholly unfamiliar with the way these low-cost CD recorders work. It's not one mistake and toss the disk as you so incorrectly suggest. Unless and until you reach the 640 megabyte disk capacity, you can read and write as though it were a floppy. The media are available in reasonable quantity for less than $1.50 and less that $5 retail.

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42128)	1/4/1998 1:10:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>CD-R is WORM (write once read many) technology. Who needs it? One mistake, and you toss a disk. Even if you are perfect, the non-reusable media costs will quickly add up.<< Edwin - It's no use trying to argue with Mr. Macpherson about CD-R. Despite his claims to have only lurked here in the past, he has indeed popped up with bursts of bombast more than once before. I'm sure some of the other old-timers on this thread remember. The funny thing is, he was going on about how CD-R made more sense than Zip or Jaz right on this very thread over a year ago. And it really doesn't matter whether he or anyone else thinks CD solutions are better than what Iomega sells, because people just keep buying Zip and Jaz. Like me, most people see an advantage to the ease-of-use, speed and yes, reliability of Zip and Jaz. I myself am still planning to buy a CD-RW drive. I understand that new 4x write, 12x read models will be selling for less than $300 within a couple of months. But even after I buy the CD-RW drive, I will use my Zip and Jaz drives. They're made for different purposes. - Allen

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42128)	1/4/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Rutgers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Edwin, thanks for the explanation and opinion regarding CD-R, CD-RW... Although this may have previously been asked, would you please share your thoughts regarding other storage media with DVD-RAM? I'm interested b/c while I was at COMDEX, Creative Technology displayed their proposed DVD-RAM Drive but they did not hype it at the show. If it helps to render your opinion, assume the following: To be deployed sometime this Spring Price of Drive = $499 Disks = $24.95 each Writing speed = 1XDVD(equiv. to 9.5X CD-ROM speed) Reading speed = 2X DVD ROM and 20X CD-ROM, with 5.2 GB or 2.6 GB media.