Jaz drive

As a result, head crashes have occurred with some Jaz drives.

The Jaz drive by design is much less prone to failure than was the Zip drive.

It may be possible to boot a Windows machine from the Jaz drive, but there is not even a whisper about how to do it.

The Jaz drive was a removable disk storage system, introduced by the Iomega company in 1995.

Worse, a few of the company's Zip and Jaz drives had reliability problems (crash!)

Iomega is offering up a backup solution on a smaller scale that looks distinctly like their now-defunct Jaz drive.

The 2 most popular were the Zip drive and the Jaz drive, both made by Iomega.

A freeware program for testing Zip and Jaz drives and cartridges can be found at grc.com/clickdeath.htm.

The later REV drive was a new attempt to take on the market that the Jaz drive could not, using similar technology.

Even so, earlier Jaz drives were prone to overheating and in some cases, loading mechanism jams left a cartridge stuck in the drive.

To the Editor: The article about making backups did not mention Iomega's Jaz drive for storage and backup.

Competitor to Iomega's Jaz drive).

The REV was in many ways a successor to Iomega's Jaz drive, which used a similar removable hard-disk-platter concept.

The current Jaz drive uses 2-GB cartridges, but also accepts the 1-GB cartridge used by the original Jaz.

On the heels of its popular little Zip drive, the Iomega Corporation has introduced the Jaz drive, which is significantly faster, more capacious and more expensive.

A two-gigabyte Jaz drive has a data transfer rate of up to 8.7 megabytes per second, where the Peerless drive can copy data more than twice that fast.

And the law will then seize your property, like your Pentium Pro, your ISDN card, and your Jaz drive.

I own a Hewlett-Packard Microsoft-compatible computer and I have added internal Jaz drives and external CD-ROM drives to avoid putting data on the hard drive.

For example, the Jaz drive from the Iomega Corporation will cost about $500 when it arrives by the end of the year and will use removable one-gigabyte hard disks costing about $100 apiece.

A. The "click of death" was a sardonic name given several years ago to a major symptom that often preceded drive failure on the Zip and Jaz drives made by the Iomega Corporation.

While the Zip drive was marketed as a high-capacity floppy disk, originally the Jaz drive was directed to a higher-end market and saw little in the SOHO or consumer markets.

The Jaz drive used only the SCSI interface (the IDE internal version is rare), but an adapter known as Jaz Traveller was available to connect it to a standard Parallel Port.

Hard drives, CDROM drives, Zip drives and removable cartridge drives such as Syquest and Iomega Jaz drives are the most popular SCSI devices used with samplers.

A 2-gigabyte (GB) Iomega Jaz drive for storing the captured data (The Jaz drive uses 2-GB removable cartridges that can be swapped out as easily as a floppy disk.)

While SCSI was standard on the Macintosh platform where the Jaz drive saw use to transfer large prepress files, the SCSI interface card required to use the drives on PCs was highly priced and was too costly for most home users.