On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 02:24 AM, Jesse Stanford wrote:Maybe it is only with the 2GB jaz disks & drives. I have found them to be kind of slow. I havn't had any experience with the 1gb jaz so i don't know much about them.
I only know about the 2GB Jaz Drive, however, you must have the power cable and adapter and plug that into the drive. Once that is plugged in, the drive will automatically power on and the green light will light up. You will need an appropriate cable for it to connect it to your computer. If I were you, I may just return it. The Jaz are mainly useful for backup if anything at all. Each firm has their projects they mess up on and i think the Jaz was iomega's. It does hold an amazing amount of capacity, but it is painfully slow. And don't think i mean just kind of slow, it is really slow. very very slow. No hard feelings toward Iomega, their Zip drives are the best and their other devices are great as wellI always thought the Zips were Iomega's iffy project - at least the cheaper IDE ones.... Click of Death anyone? :>
My 2$
Jesse
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Seriously though, I have an external Jaz 1GB along with 9 disks (free from a computer store), and for writing it seems to be around the same speed as a Zip drive. Reading is much faster.
An example:
Copying 216.6MB of assorted files from a Jaz disk to a folder on my desktop: 1 minute.
Wiping the Jaz disk and writing the same data back to it: 2 minutes.
The zips have worked great for me, i have had one zip drive and one disk go bad over a 12-13 year period. The zip drive that went bad worked later on when i took it back out and tried it. It was the click of death thing that you were referring to.
Jesse
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