[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ drives

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Gavin Tweedie wrote:

> anyone have anything good/bad to say about internal jaz/zip or sparq
> drives (the latter 2 are 1gb)?

I use Zip for backups, and they work well. The parallel port versions are
said to be very slow though. Internal IDE versions are only $150 now.

 At $20 for 96MB its expensive for archiving, but less hassle than tapes,
and i expect more reliable.

Jaz would be good for moving data around, but the media price compares
poorly to a hard drive these days, if you dont need tough prtability.


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