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While not a 701 owner, I do have both a Jaz and Zip drive for my TP755 CDV. I operate them under Win 95 where both work well. I think your choice depends on planned usage. The Zip drive can connect through the parallel port and provides nice capacity for archiving data. As noted, it is quite a bit slower than the Jaz, but has advantages in portability. ie. you can attach it to any PC to move files (up to 100 meg) back and forth. Using the Iomega Guest software, you don't even need to install anything on the other machines. The Jaz is a SCSI device, hence requires an additional card. I have an Adaptec PCMCIA card in my TP and the Jaz works great with it. Because it is much faster than the Zip you can even install and run applications from the Jaz. Summary Zip - has portablility. Slow performance. Good for archiving data and applications. (100 meg disks). Jaz - lacks protability. additional card required. Performance good enough to run applications from it. (1 gig disks). Incidentally, I would be lost without either. I also have a 1.3 gig hd as my main drive and the original 810 in the ultra-bay. The problems of being a software junkie, I guess. :-) Hope this info is useful Pat pat.presidente@sd72.org -----Original Message----- From: Dominique Pivard <domi@kenavo.fi> To: THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu <THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 2:26 PM Subject: Iomega ZIP vs. JAZ Hi, I'm about to replace the original 360MB drive in my TP701 with a 2.1GB Toshiba drive. I'd like to buy an Iomega external drive for backup purposes and I'm hesitating between the ZIP and the JAZ models. Could owners of either type comment on these devices? Is there any quirk to be aware of when used with a TP701? Will either model be fully supported under Warp and Linux? Everybody seems to be talking about ZIP but JAZ isn't that expensive anymore (taking the much bigger capacity into account) and it appears to be quite faster. Thanks, Dominique -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dominique Pivard <domi@kenavo.fi> Helsinki, Finland -----------------------------------------------------------