on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 08:20:37PM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > No specific advice. What is this card for? In my experience, Iomega > > sucks, blows, and spews chunks, in technicolor. > > i used to agree. but there is an upside. provided they stay in business > (cough syquest) you can keep on exchanging media ..at least if you > have a jaZ(ive exchanged 3 jaz drives and about 15 carts during > the 2.5 years i used JAZ have not really touched it since) and > every time (except the first jaz drive exchange that was out > of warranty by a few months:( ) it was free. by the end i would > just save up cartridges and exchange them in packs of 3 or 4. > (this is Jaz 1GB btw) > > took me a while to realize that even tho they suck i don't mind > a whole lot because i learned early never to store data on > iomega that was critical, always have a backup on something > else, as long as i could keep exchanging media it wasn't a big > deal(cept to pay for the postage to ship.
While this is true, you're stuck with unreliable media. It was oversold to me initially -- at the time I was running NT 4.0, and MSFT's brain-dead backup software *won't* write to Jaz. I'd much rather have spent the dough on a high-capacity DAT drive *plus* several (1997/8) GB of reliable SCSI storage. I'd be ahead of the game. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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