On Sep 8, 2004, at 10:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:51 PM -0400 09/07/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:With all this said I still have some terribly unreliable SyQuest drives in
use as secondary backups. I have multiple extra SyQuest drives available in case of a drive failure and a many extra carts.
SyQuest was an embarrassment to the industry.
While Iomega and other removable media manufacturers used primary platters for their devices, SyQuest used factory seconds... They bought them in bulk from companies like Quantum. Platters that had too many errors to be usable in their hard drive products...
Hmmm...my experiences with my Syquest EZ135 drives were exactly the opposite. More reliable, faster and more capacity than Zip drives. Of all the disks I owned only one failed, and that because of an 8' drop onto hard concrete. I've had a lot more problems with Zip disks and drives.
I've NEVER had any luck with Jaz drives, nor has anyone I've ever known who used them.
The older Syquest products are robust and reliable, far more so than Iomega's other products.
Syquest had two Jaz competitors out just before the company imploded, the SyJet and SparQ, and then there was the ill-fated Orb drive; but that's it in the 1G or more range, unless you go looking at the more exotic MO drives.
Zip drives were primarily a marketing victory over Syquest, not a technological one.
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