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To: Pacing The Cage who wrote (9078)	4/14/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: Ashok (Ash) Mansukhani	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

The consulting company I work for today announced that all it's 20,000 to 30,000 consultants, managers, and above (across the globe), were required to backup their laptops on Jaz drives. Only a few folks have jaz drives, but each office will be using jazz drives to back up the laptops....20k to 50k jazz disks will be munching up all that data!!! Too, I would expect purchase of at at least a few hundred drives to augment the existing pool. I also saw this on PCComputing...for what it's worth zdnet.com Super Floppy or Super Flop? Sony hopes the world will abandon floppy drives in favor of the HiFD. By Martin Sargent, PC Computing March 31, 1999 Sony invented the floppy drive, but now the company hopes the world will abandon it in favor of the HiFD, a 200MB superfloppy drive that can read and write to your old 1.44MB disks. On paper, the HiFD is a hit. The IDE version of the drive can transfer data at a brisk 3MBps, fast enough to stream the 20 minutes of MPEG-1 video that a single HiFD cartridge can hold. Sony was supposed to release the HiFD last spring, but waited until fall to ensure its dependability. Then the company again suspended distribution, because the secret to the drive's speed and supposed reliability--a flying head that floats slightly above the media, which spins at 3,600 rpm--was periodically striking the disk. When it's polished, HiFD should be a five-star product. But wait until the kinks are ironed out before you buy. Sony HiFD Verdict: Could be a Zip killer, but hold off until the company gets it right. Rating:Three Stars Pros:Fast; capacious. Cons:A history of technical glitches. $199; $15 per cartridge, list prices / Sony