Biennial Crash Testing

[Guy Beall]

> Okay.  I have never used a Jaz drive.  Is it fast?  Is it
> reliable?  Is it
> subject to strange deteriorations like tape cartridges are?  (I don't
> even want to think about the time when I was reinstalling stuff from a
> tape drive and the tape jammed.  One of those moments when I did
> everything right and I still got slammed.

Jaz drives are very fast if you have a SCSI card, they make a parallel port
adapter, but it tends to slow things down considerably. Jaz drive is
basically a hard drive platter inside a plastic case. Very reliable, I have
never seen one die yet. And I have quite a few of them laying around here.

Guy