Chris Fishwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone out there got any experience with the Iomega Jaz drives??
Yes. I've got five Jaz drives, and I'd be delighted to sell all of them and
get some of my money back.
They all seemed to work at first, but over a period of a four to eight months,
they all developed bad sectors on the disks. Some of them only got a few bad
sectors, but one of them got a lot.
This seems to be independent of how often the cartridge is ejected. The
one that developed the most bad sectors actually had the same cartridge in
place continuously for eight months.
At my day job we have about eight Syquest SyJet 1.5G drives and two Syquest
SparQ 1.0G drives. These seem to be even worse than the Jaz drives; several
of them have completely failed in less than six months.
I've reached the conclusion that removable rigid media at modern densities
is not workable. In the old days we had pretty good luck with RP06 packs,
but they were much better designed and were installed in machine rooms with
A/C and air filtration.
Maybe these drives would work better under a lighter workload, but there
wasn't anything on the box suggesting that they wouldn't hold up to
continuous duty. (Would you buy drives or disks that only claimed to work
four hours a day? Some printers are rated that way.)
On the other hand, I've had very good luck with ZIP disks (which use floppy
media). I've got four ZIP drives and have never had a single sector go bad
in over a year of use. Other people have reported some sort of "clicking
death" problem, but I've never seen it.
Cheers,
Eric
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