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

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (47649)	2/12/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: Spank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

kp If it shouldn't, then why'd you say the OEM price would be $200? Are you saying something as stupid as: "Iomega doesn't have a clue that they can't produce an OEM drive for less than $200"? -Spank

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (47649)	2/12/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 58324

>>Creating a peripheral that small, that fast (remember, flash is very, very fast) and low power consumption is going to be expensive. It's not another ZIP. I'd say CLIK! complexity is 10x the ZIP. Maybe more...<< Ken - Basing my comparison solely on the given specs for these two announced, yet still unavailable products (SMOD's Compact Flash and Clik!) I don't see Flash having a big speed advantage. Unfortunately, the specs are given differently. SMOD's Compact Flash Reads 3.5 MB/sec Writes 650 KB/sec Clik! Sustained transfer rates: Minimum 500 KB/sec Maximum 1000 KB/sec Average 700 KB/sec Writes are where speed will be more critical with Clik!. Since Clik! is a magnetic disk-based medium, read and write speeds most likely will not vary widely, so both should fall within the given specs. I do agree with you that the design challenge of Clik! is greater than that for Zip. I believe that KE and his engineers underestimated the difficulty when they first came up with n.hand, which has become Clik! Those who believe that Clik! has been delayed only because it hasn't been accepted by OEMs probably don't understand the engineering issues involved. I'm quite sure that Iomega is telling the truth when they say they are just now getting ready to ship evaluation units to the OEMs. - Allen