I guess I have to chime in on this one.  I have three Jaz drives and I use
them constantly; I carry my Jaz disks loose in my briefcase.  Never had a
problem with either the drive or the disks over the past 3-4 years.  Also
have a Zip drive - ditto; it's the type that inserts into the drive bay of
my notebook.  I use them to back up data and image files, i.e. small and
large files like 150MB AVI high speed video files.  Of course, I also back
everything up to CDs for archiving.

Damian



>>I second Jeff Reece's comments regarding the instability of JAZ drives and
>>their disks.  We used our 3 drives on 3 separate platforms (Windows
>>95, SGI and
>>Mac OS 8.0) and after about 9 months, the problems started
>>happening.  Once the
>>large 2GB disks begin to fill up, the directories seem to have problems
>>handling all the files and subdirectories.  We've had one drive replaced by
>>Iomega, but have since corrupted another disk.  CD-RW are definitely more
>>stable. I'm curious if anyone else has had similar problems with the JAZ.
>>Conversely, our ZIPs seem to be chugging along just fine.
>>
>>
>>Linda Mayernik, M.S.
>>Confocal Imaging Core Facility
>>Wayne State University School of Medicine
>>Detroit, MI
>
>
>Mario M. Moronne, Ph.D.
>Material and Life Science Divisions M/S 6-2100
>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>1 Cyclotron Rd.
>Berkeley, CA.
>94720
>
>ph 510-486-4236
>FAX 510-528-8076
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