Biennial Crash Testing

[Michael O'Brien]

>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.

We have a Jaz drive at the paper where I work. I'd consider it as fast as
an older, slower hard drive - I wouldn't run games or multimedia straight
off it, but it's great for archiving and would probably work for programs
that don't need the disk as much, like word processing. We've had no
reliability problems to speak of.

As was mentioned, though, get a SCSI card for your machine if you don't
have one. Using a Jaz through a parallel port will be a slow, painful
process. I believe Iomega sells cheap SCSI cards intended only to give
their customers quick, easy use of Iomega drives - not suitable for
scanners, etc.

The most disgusting thing about the Jaz at work is that one 2 gig cartridge
is twice the size of the hard drive in my home machine...

Mikhail

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