Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:44:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega CLIK! PC Card Drive on buy.com
> Thanks. I bought a few. Do you think they're:
>
> a) discontinuing them; or
Just not competitve vs. solid-state flash cards which are not as magnetic
field & dust sensitive, and the fact that nobody (today's laptop buyers) use
them vs. the built-in CD-RW drives. After all, with most new 500+Mhz notebooks
with CD-RW drives selling for only ~$1000, and CD-R discs going for <$0.10 per
disc (if not free with rebates in Sunday paper ads), it makes no sense at all
to use a Clik! disc for the majority, esp. when the discs aren't readable in
other peoples machines without the adapter (whereas CD-R discs are).
However, for the single user wanting some portable storage to hold data just
in case the HD goes, it's not a bad option considering how cheap they are for
40MB, and that media is going for a decently cheap price on www.ebay.com.
--
Otherwise, it's like this. Iomega sent me one for free. I stared at the
pretty metal box and the contents in wonder for a few hours, played with it in
laptop and PDA (doesn't work in Sharp Zaurus japanese PDA - too little power to
spin it up), thought the transfer rates were so anciently slow ala a ZIP drive
(we're talking slow like a floppy, not fast like a 16x+CD-RW drive; slower than
a smartmedia flash card even!), and have the Zio! USB SmartMedia pocketable,
flash card reader where I can plug in my 128MB card into any PC to transfer
files, stared at the pretty metal box some more, then sold it on Ebay for quite
a bit of money last year to buy something more useful, like a Lexar compact
flash card with seperate PCMCIA adapter (the Lexar cards come with free USB
adapters, but you'll need a seperate $10 PCMCIA adapter to PCMCIA slots and
laptops w/o USB).
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