When you work with massive multimedia files, removable-media storage drives like the 100MB Iomega Zip and the 230MB SyQuest EZ-Flyer seem woefully inadequate. Even drives such as the original 1GB Iomega Jaz and SyQuest's 1.5GB SyJet often fail to meet your archival needs with the one or two disks they bundle. But two new drives that bump capacities up to 2GB per disk have arrived--Iomega's Jaz 2GB and the 2.16GB Orb from Castlewood Systems.
On the outside, the Jaz 2GB looks just like its predecessor, but under the hood it delivers higher performance, according to my tests of a shipping unit. Whereas the original Jaz drive had an average data transfer rate of 5.4 megabytes per second, the 2GB model increases this rate to 7.4 MBps. Normally, a removable drive reads too slowly to play video well, but I could run video clips directly from the 2GB Jaz cartridge with only minor hiccups.
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