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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (52318)	4/12/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Respond to of 58324

Cheeky Kid, >>Read the other artical, it says the drive is 2.5 times faster than the fastest ZIP and 5.7 times faster than the LS-120.<< Yea, I read the articles, but they doesn't say much about specs. Just the 3.6MB/sec MAX. If you were marketing a floppy drive to compete with Zip, would you quote the burst rate (max?), or average sustained transfer rate, which although a lower number, is more indicative of real world performance? Indeed, the floppy wars will heat up. Just don't forget that better technology and better performance aren't necessarily sure fire indicators of future commercial success (eg. Imation LS-120 and SyQuest EZ-135). Philip