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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (6985)	2/1/1999 9:38:00 AM
From: Pacing The Cage	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>I don't know if Rocky will respond to your request, but I will.<< >>Rocky - Gee, that was an odd thing to say. Did you think you were posting under one of your other identities?<< Looks like you got him again. Good work!

To: Cogito who wrote (6985)	2/1/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Allen, You should appreciate this post from the AOL Motley Fool, discussing a rather large business conversion to Jaz drives for backup purposes. The great thing about Jaz drives is you can buy one now! No BS "any day now" releases predicted.....you can walk right into a store today and buy one, take it home and use it! With the demise of the chintzy, unreliable Syquest SparQ drive, Iomega has this "high end" removable storage market all to themselves!!! Here is the post: I work for a company in the top five based on market cap. Our division has decided to have everyone back up once per week. Jaz drives are being connected to the local server and each employee is to be given a Jaz 2Gig disk. That is 12 drives & ~150 disks for the central region. (how's that for tie ratios?) We are just a small part of a much larger division that has decided this. We are presently using tape backup. Noise is annoying for tape for many cubicles around. I found out that our corporate gateway won't let files over 5 Mb be e-mailed in. No chance to make this bigger. A customer that had been desperately trying to send me a 15 Mb Autocad file gave up and Fedexed a Zip disk. Most industrial engineering departments that I talk to have access to a Zip. It is going to be tough for LS120 to overcome that placement. We have field people trying to send in 50 Mb of recording data at a time. From a motel room, e-mail doesn't get it. The guy in the next cubicle gave up and finally bought a zip drive to handle it. Bought a 250 (might as well be compatible with the future). When we went in to Office Depot, the lady manager said there was no comparison, Zips vastly outsold the standalone LS120's. Office Depot, Staples & Officemax all had parallel 250's in stock. Few, if any, disks though. 100 disk in a 250 drive is noticeably slower than a 100 in a 100 drive. I have seen maybe a dozen LS 120's in the last few days in Compaq computers. No broken doors. Long IOM but frustrated. Will IOM get hurt for another year or two running IMN out of the business? Dave