IOmega

On 27 Feb 2008 at 22:30, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote: Back when the Jaz was new stuff, we were involved with making recommendations for several hundred customers for the best removable mass storage medium for quick portable backups. Many of our customers used tape (8mm/DLT mostly; 4mm DAT and Travan was just too unreliable), but some wanted faster random-access storage. Many of our customers had used 150MB and 230MB Bernoulli drives with much success, so when the Jaz drive came out, they expected the same quality, particularly given the high media price. Sadly, most were disappointed--many drives seemed to fail within a few months. This may have been an issue of QC at the manufacturing site, but it was enough to make most of our customers swear off them. The other thing that surprised many was that Iomega spec-ed the shelf life of the media at 10 years. This is not good news. To be fair, similar experiences were had with the Castlewood Orb drives and the Syquest SyJet. Both of those companies are defunct, but Iomega plugs on. I believe their current offering is the 35/70GB Rev drive. I have no experiece with these models. As usual, YMMV. Cheers, Chuck