In head-to-head performance testing, the EZ-135 beat the Zip-100 by at least 33%, and up to as much as 41%, at the primary task which framed their all too brief time in the sun – backup and restore.
Of course, the Jaz drive outpaced both of them by a healthy margin, which comes as no surprise. The EZ-135 was 33.9% faster to copy from the HDD to the cartridge, and 41.5% faster to copy from the cartridge to the HDD. These results show that in the real world work of backing up and restoring files, the EZ-135 is faster than the Zip-100, but not by quite as much as the above specifications might lead you to expect. Here are the results (smaller results are better): As a bonus, and since I had one handy, I performed this same “benchmark” using an Iomega Jaz 1GB as well. The real world test tasks chosen were a small simulation of a backup and a restore: copying roughly 6.3 MB of large files (400KB to 500KB each) onto the cartridge from the HD, and then copying them back onto the HD from the cartridge.
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In turn therefore I connected each to the same Mac, my Power Mac 7500/366, and tested their performance at the same real world tasks. Sustained Transfer Rate: up to 2.4 MB/sĪs it happens, I have the good fortune to have both the EZ-135 and a Zip-100 in the Happy Macs lab, both external SCSI interfaced units.Sustained Transfer Rate: up to 1.4 MB/s.
As a quick refresher from the original post in this series, here is what the relevant specs say: The EZ-135 specs seem to have it running about 70% faster than a Zip-100, so it was time to test this out. This post delves into that question and provides answers. Now, with our SyQuest EZ-135 installed, set up and running successfully, the next questions are clearly “how fast is?” and “how fast is it relative to its Iomega Zip-100 competitor?”.
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In the last two posts on the topic of the SyQuest EZ-135 “super floppy”, we looked more closely into the product, compared it to the Zip-100, installed the software and hardware and got it fully functioning under Mac OS 8.6 on the Happy Mac Lab’s Power Macintosh 7500/366.
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