> years ago I was faced with the decision whether to go with the iomega 100 > or the syquest 135. > > I read the reviews of both products, and came to the conclusion that the > only downside to the syquest drives was having to move a lever to eject the > cartridge, whereas the upside was higher data transfer speed, and > substantially more storage area on the cartridges.
I also reached the same conclusion, and recommended the EZ135 and subsequently the EZFlyer 230 for use in our entire school district by those people that needed a cheap backup solution (mainly our libraries). That decision came back to haunt me because: 1. SyQuest went out of business, leaving us in a position of hunting around for cartridges. 2. The Iomega Zip drive became the standard, meaning that people couldn't readily bring their data back and forth from home 3. Numerous driver and media failures with the SyQuests. 4. Many, many broken latches and doors on the units - mostly due to users trying to 'force' it 5. Several bad power supplies 6. Many print houses will accept work on Zip, but don't have SyQuest Bottom line is that we've now got quite a few 'spare' SyQuest drives and cartridges. We ultimately switched to using Fujitsu 640mb Dynamo Magneto Optical (floptical) drives. A bit on the pricey side, but I've only run into one case where there was a media problem in the 3+ years we've been using them. They are a bit slow, but data reliability was a must for us. We've also got a couple folks using CD-R/CD-RW. And of course, the people that need them (including myself) have Zip drives. James -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
