Bob Maxey wrote:
>I had nothing but success in the old days with Iomega, so you must
have just
>been real lucky. I still have two drives in my closet that would still
work
>without issues.
>All encompassing statements such as yours have such little value, it's
>surprising you would be willing to publicly associate yourself with such
>nonsense. It dilutes what ever insight you may actually have on other
>issues.
>>>Oh really, I guess you never visited the newsgroups then. YOU were the
lucky one to have any Iomega product work properly.
I personally had several that were crap. The company I worked for
ditto. Companies my friends worked for ditto. Big pun, ditto all over.>>>
However, I have had several and they work well. I had my hands on one
before they reached the market (driver testing). I was sold so I bought
several. They worked when I bought them and they work to this day.
I have never visited the newsgroups, but so what? Unless you know
something about the user posting a bad report, you really do not know if
the dissatisfied could manage to plug in a toaster oven or a computer
cable. For all you know, some of these newsgroup posts were made by
people that cannot follow the instructions.
Bob
I have had experience only with the 100 MB Zip drives. I still use
an external Zip to trade files with my wife and the place I used to
work. What happened for me was that all of the Zip drives that were
installed internally failed within a year. You got the dreaded
"click of death" and the drive was junk and your disk was corrupted.
I have used a number of external Zip drives and have never had one
fail. I am not currently doing industrial strength usage but they
get frequent work. My understanding was that they were very
sensitive to heat buildup and that is why the internal ones failed
but the external drives had better performance record. Just my
experience. I wouldn't indict or recommend but mine are still
quicker than burning a disk.
Don
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