Re: Synquest

[ongtatwe@iscs.nus.sg (IIgs User)]

Peter Handel (zelix@drift.winternet.com) wrote:
: In article <3n15ll$atu@elna.ethz.ch>,
: GUDAT,HENRIK MICHAEL <GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH> wrote:
: >In <3mqur0$fvl@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cn914@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes:
: >
: >SyQuests are a waste of money - check out other mechanisms instead. A
: >low-capacity hard disk will probably serve you better.

: I'm going to have to agree with you on this one...I've archived almost
: all my files on a SyQuest 44MB for my BBS, and now about 2% or so
: of them are corrupt.  I've weeded out the bad ones (whew!) and replaced

I have to disagree on this one.  I believe the quality of the SyQuest
drives depends on which model you have.  I know the 44MB SyQuest is very
unreliable --- a few friends have theirs fried.  But I own the 105MB
SyQuest and have friends who have 105 or 270MB SyQuests.  None of us
have any problems with it at all.  I have the SyQuest running almost
daily for > 1 year.

I believe the new 3.5" SyQuests are much more reliable than the old 5.25
ones (44 and 88MB).  So I'd say check out the drives if you're
interested.

Henrik: I really don't know how you killed 4 drives in 3 weeks..... but
if they're the 5.25 type, then I suppose it's possible. :)

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