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To: FuzzFace who wrote (5125)	12/14/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Edwin - Pinson just doesn't get it. Most companies are not going to run out and buy Hi-Val adapters that make their old hard drives useable as removable storage. There are many reasons for this. The two most important reasons are: One, most hard drives are not designed to be slammed around like a portable unit, and just putting them into adapters doesn't change that. Two, it doesn't accomplish the same thing that using a Zip or Jaz drive does. It should be noted that the Zip and Jaz drive aren't used in exactly the same applications. Pinson's original article talks about how expensive it would be to send large amounts of static data to other people on Jaz disks. In those situations, he maintains that CD-R is a better choice, and that's true. But that isn't really the primary purpose of a Jaz drive. People who use Jaz drives need expandable near-line storage (meaning almost as accessible as what's on the computer's hard drive) with performance characteristics similar to a hard drive. There are situations where a user would send a Jaz cartridge to another. But those are situations in which the receiving user would be likely to use the received data in some application that required a lot of read/write activity. CD-R or even CD-RW doesn't cut it for that. I thought about writing to Pinson about some of the things he seems to misunderstand, but I can't see that it would be worth the effort. (Maybe it would do more good than posting it here, though. I don't know.) - Allen

To: FuzzFace who wrote (5125)	12/14/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

And the final response from Mr. Pinson: sure...this is no big deal to set a jumper once when you set this up...once done...you never have to change it again as a removable slave drive.... so far I see read/write drives gaining market share in 1999......maybe in 2000 there will be a DVD read write...what readers may be over looking is that price pressure on IOM products is where I see problems for IOM as these new products are being released...the ZIP is great...but..new products are coming...