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

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (43984)	1/19/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 58324

<Clik of course will have plenty of space for almost 200 pics but it has some implementation problems and reliability concerns. > Andy, you don't need to be concerned over Clik! reliability. The specs for it's ruggedness are more than adequate. If you don't believe them, you'll just have to wait for the product release and test it yourself. <g> I find the phrasing curiously bearish. On one hand, this product is still being developed. Any product in development is, by definition, having "implementation problems" in that it is not yet implemented into production. Why, except to put a negative spin on it, would you say such a thing about a product still in development? Once it is in production, then let's hear the critiques. Or at least, critique from the currently published specs (tentative thought they are). Until then, you are just shooting in the dark. One of the ranker intellectual dishonesties going around here (not from you, Andy) is the attempt to tear down this product by, alternately, reifying negative speculations on its physical properties, and then deriding it as vapor.

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (43984)	1/19/1998 7:22:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>For the media, Clik is probably more durable than flash card but a flash controller chip is more than 100 times more reliable than the miniature Clik drive even though the die size is 10 times smaller than a running motor and a moving r/w head. Clik drive can go vanilla without dropping but the flash memory mechasim rarely fail. When you drop your desktop on floor, you have greater than 50% chance to total your HDD but that doesn't imply that your computer will be safe if it will never drop on floor. Your HDD is still the most fragile parts which can bring down your whole computer. OTOH, how often will the memory bring down the computer?<< That's all nice, but how do you know Clik! won't be durable enough? Do you have a Clik! you've tested? It is designed with durability in mind, I assume. Brendan