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To: Dr. Benway who wrote (431)	7/7/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: Dirk D.	Respond to of 10072

I've been using a Zip drive at work and at home, and have never experienced a problem with either drive. The drive at work is a SCSI Insider, and the one at home is a parallel port external. I highly recommend the drive since it is dirt cheap.

To: Dr. Benway who wrote (431)	7/7/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: BBG	Respond to of 10072

>>>just curious if anyone here owns an Iomega drive and if they have had any problems<<< Dr. Ben... I bought a ZIP PLUS external drive about a month ago and have been using it constantly to store all of my scanned photos and download entire websites using Web Buddy... My drive was a snap to install, has worked flawlessly and is super fast... it's very quiet too... If you're debating between different removable storage options I don't think you're going to find better quality, technical support, availability than IOMEGA ZIP drives... not to mention that you can potentially share your sick pictures with 14 million + other ZIP drive owners (there may be a law against that depending on how sicko we're talking...:-) And I think you can count on IOMEGA being in business for many years to come unlike some other companies... A couple of thoughts/Questions: -Is IOMEGA just making a 250 ZIP disk that is backward compatible with existing ZIP drives? Or are they building a new drive too? - Anyone find it "interesting that Rockhead and Vannihead both have not posted anywhere on SI since July 2nd... ??? Ciao... JD

To: Dr. Benway who wrote (431)	7/7/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: Thomas L Nielsen	Respond to of 10072

I have used the zip drive that I purchased when it was first available and have not experienced any problems with it or with my disks (~20 disks). Tom

To: Dr. Benway who wrote (431)	7/7/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Eve Edelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

To Dr. Benway about my experience with Zips/Jaz Hello Dr., At home I have a zip and a 1GB-Jaz. The zip works fine. The Jaz sometimes makes a whiny noise on startup, not mechanical but like electrical noise. That is if there is no Jaz cartridge in it. If I flip it off and on again, or put a cartridge in it, the noise goes away. Anyway, it works fine but I consider that noise a possible defect, but I don't know yet. At work, one of my research groups has 10 zip drives or so, all work fine. The other group has I think 6 zips (parallel, scsi, ide), and one 1-GB Jaz, and I have a zip and 1-GB Jaz at work myself. One zip broke from being tossed around in the laboratory oo much. The Jaz (again), this one from LaCie, had a fan problem which was replaced but it seems to be happening again. Fans seem to be failing around here lately - in Jaz drives, hard disks, computers. Anyway, the zip/jaz drives all work. No media problems since we started getting Iomega products, it must be almost 2 years ago now. My institution, a large-ish R&D facility, has anointed a certain configuration of Micron PC as the standard for new purchases, and it contains an internal zip. So I think it's an OK way to go. I carry files back & forth between home & office on a zip. A nice solution. If you start having to move many gigs of files, a tape drive would be cheaper. Well, there you have it in glorious detail. Hope it helps.