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

To: Naggrachi who wrote (52821)	4/16/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

The following letter concerning Jaz just appeared on the Roland mailing list. It responds to a question that was asked about using the Jaz drive. Chris, Be aware that Roland discontinued use of internal Jaz drives on their VS880 line. The reason was a very high failure rate of Jaz cartridges. On the VS880 mailing list there is story after story of people using the Jaz drive without problem for months, then losing the drive altogether without warning. (I have personal experience with Jaz failure on an external SCSI unit. I was one of the people saying the hysteria was over-hyped until I lost 2 recording sessions to a failure.) Although Roland still endorses the Zip drive for backup, both Roland and E-Mu have withdrawn all endorsement for the Jaz drive. You'll hear plenty of endorsements from people having success, but I would have been one of those people until December. Regards, Dan

To: Naggrachi who wrote (52821)	4/16/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: cruncher	Respond to of 58324

In a recent article from zdnet the author reviews 333Mhz systems. The Pros column clearly identifies systems with zip drives, and the Cons column clearly identifies systems without zip drives. The zdnet author considers zip drives a major plus in a system. The PC manufacturers that include zip drives have a major competitive advantage over the PC manufacturers that do not include zip drives. zdnet.com

To: Naggrachi who wrote (52821)	4/17/1998 12:16:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re:<First quarter revenue of $408 million !. We were all prepared for a lack of profit ( surprisingly fore warned of the issue ) but the sales is the big story here. Heck if it wasn't for the extra advertising expenses one could make a case that they had a good quarter. Granted they blew it in several areas but someone was quick enough to change coarse before it was too late. In retrospect the street didn't buy all the extra advertising either and marked the company down because of it. I was pleased to hear from the conference call of the changes in direction that had already been initiated, I had expected them. I'm grateful to not have to hear another one of K.E.'s conference calls. Just one observation, the shift in retail sales to OEM sales could be due in part to the use of the ATAPI OEM drive to satisfy at least some of the perspective retail buyers. Often we will install an OEM drive into an existing older box but this benefits IOM in the form of less packaging and customer support. Well just two observations, Ingram has some 100,000 resellers by itself and with those of us in the trenches day after day there's a certain amount of forced experience that is acquired, for one to suggest that the OEM's while buying millions of these drives just don't know how bad they are and that they're defective is insulting. Not to suggest that there isn't room for improvement because there always is. Now over 300 sold and still only 2 failures. As good or better than a hard drive. Reseller