Reception
The Jaz never attained as much success or market penetration as the Zip, and explanations for this vary. Some attribute it to poor marketing on Iomega's part or that it was largely unnecessary to transport a gigabyte worth of information at a time when hard drives were still only a few gigabytes. Others attribute slow sales to its cost per megabyte being too high. 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. Compared to the SCSI Zip drive, which used DB25 connectors, the Jaz used the HD50 connectors and supported ID 0-6. The SCSI interface itself was highly priced and was too costly for most home users. The rising popularity and decreasing price of CD-R/CD-RW and DVD+-R/DVD+-RW drives greatly hurt the success of the drive since their price per megabyte was much lower and because these discs could be read in almost any standard ROM drive (irrespective of format).
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