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

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (46201)	1/29/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: W. Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Andy, <<If they are using normal HDD and PCMCIA interface, I wonder why the capacity is so low.>> The disk drive is in the Type III PC card. It is not a separate drive. <<Isn't Clik also a "solid state media".>> I think by "solid state media" they mean "semiconductor" with no moving parts. clik! is magnetic media and the drive is just like other magnetic disk drives such as ZIP. (rotating media and moving heads) Bill

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (46201)	1/29/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>If they are using normal HDD and PCMCIA interface, I wonder why the capacity is so low. >> there's no question that completely solid state media such as flash are more durable overall than Clik! << Isn't Clik also a "solid state media".<< Andy - The PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) hard disks do not use a regular hard disk with a PC Card interface. They are completely self-contained devices the same length and width as a standard PC Card. They are the same height as two standard (Type II) PC cards, so they take up both slots of a dual PC Card setup. That is why they are referred to as Type III, and that's also why the capacity is so small. No, Clik is not solid state. It's a disk-based medium, as you know. Perhaps we have misunderstood one another. Also perhaps we'd better take this discussion off the thread, because the non-technoids are undoubtedly getting restless already. - Allen