Re: SyQuest SparQ 1.0 GB Drive

["Stephen Hartz" <SHartz@columbus.rr.com>]

Buy a zip 250- they work great!
"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well, I'm probably not going to get it.  I'll keep trying to win a Zip 250
> Scsi on ebay...
>
> I've read a bunch of horror stories about this drive.  And they aren't
> selling on ebay either...
>
> <anoneds@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> >I owned one of those. It was more prone to the "click of death" than
> > the Iomega Zip drives of the time.
> >
> > What a piece of crap (at least mine was). Disks would get stuck in the
> > drive, it would whirr up and down trying to load one and give up,
> > flashing its little pathetic light. Then the disk was unreadable and
> > you'd lose everything. Sometimes it sounded like a high-pitched buzzsaw
> > (I could imagine my data getting buzz-sawed, with bits going
> > everywhere).
> >
> > Must say the earlier Syquest 200mb drives (with larger cartridges) were
> > much more stable, Been using one for several years without problems.
> >
> > And been using a 100mb Zip drive for a couple years without a problem
> > as well.
> >
> > Hope it is really cheap.
> >
>
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