Re: SyQuest Help!

[doug.mitton@nt.com (Douglas E. Mitton)]

I've had an 88Meg Syquest external for about 3(?) years now ... for
the first 1.5 years it was my primary boot device!

I had no problems with it at all ... except for the cost of the
cartridges ... it was fast, convenient, etc.

For the last 1.5 years I've used a 300+ meg hard drive with multiple
partitions as my primary boot device and the Syquest as a backup and
archiving device.  The hard drive just lets me have all my data online
at once, instead of switching between cartridges.

All told I'm happy with it ... I plan to migrate it to a PC system I'm
building as well.

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>In article <32762C33.A60@eds.com>, EDavis  <LNUSMNF.EDAVIS02@eds.com> wrote:
>>Last night I blew up another SyQuest 44 Meg. cart.  Does anyone have
>>this drive, and have any experience with it?  

>   Never owned one, but have used/had to maintain computers with those
>things. I had enough bad experiences with them that I wouldn't trust
>any data to them that I cared about. [First one acquired the bad habit
>of spinning down then back up when attempting to write to it, the
>other ate a Syquest cartridge a month, finally culminating in a head
>crash that scarred the platter.]

>   Zip drives are faster, more reliable, more portable, and available
>new now. It may be worth it to upgrade if you're having enough
>problems with that Syquest.

>Nathan Mates

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