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Tue, 11 May 1999 14:09:02 -0500
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Re: 100 MB disks in a Zip 250 drive
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>When writing to a 100MB Zip disk, 100 MB of data takes around 9 minutes.
>When writing to a 250 MB disk, the same amount of data takes about 90
>seconds. Has anyone one on the list seen or heard of a similar situation ?
>Or would anyone have an idea why ?


The new 250 MB disks were enhanced (by what method I do not know) to work
with the new drive.  Iomega made the new drive backwards-compatible so that
the 100 MB disks would not become obsolete (as fast).  They do not in the
marketing that to experience the speed increase, you must be using a 250 MB
disk.  My advice would be to get a SCSI version, as it is still the fastest
model of Zip (100 or 25) that Iomega makes.

Brad Boutwell
Tulsa, OK

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