IOmega

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> But then people said that about those floppy-connected QIC tape drives (hmm, 
>> those were IOmega too, weren't they?) and lots of people seemed to find that 
>> they had dreadful reliability too. Seemed nice at the time, but not so good a 
>> few months down the line...
> 
> There was a lot of junk in the way of tape drives out at the time.  
> We wouldn't endorse any kind of tape that (a) didn't use a standard 
> SCSI interface and command set (b) didn't perform read-after-write 
> verification.  4mm DAT barely qualified, but we cautioned against it 
> as being not-quite-ready-for-serious-use.  The only Travan drive that 
> even came close was an HP model that claimed to do read-after-write.  
> Our customers used this stuff out in the field almost exclusively, so 
> it also had to survive environmental stress.
> 
> To their credit, I've a number of Zip drives and at least 2 Jaz 
> drives as well as a couple of Bernoullis and they all seem to work 
> fine.  But recommending something for rugged use is a different 
> matter entirely.
> 
> Most customers eventually went to purchasing hard drives to hold 
> backup data.

I've found that nearly any drive that claims "high performance" isn't 
worth a shit.

Including modern technologies like AIT.  I've never had any problem (or 
at least any problem I didn't see coming...) with DLT, Ultrium, sDLT, 
Magstar, 3490E or 3480.

Peace...  Sridhar