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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 15 Jan 96 12:58:42 +0500
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
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- On or about 15-Jan-96 19:47:07 Peter da Silva typed the following words about
- "Re: ZIP vs SyQuest". My reply is thus...
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- PdS> In article <1228.6586T617T2608@grape.epix.net>,
- PdS> jkelly <jkelly@grape.epix.net> wrote:
- >>>How likely is this? I guess I'll sacrifice the .000005%
- >>>chance of my dropping a SyQuest cartridge on a concrete
- >>>surface for the gains in storage space and speed.
-
- >> How many here have NEVER had a floppy disk knocked off his desk?
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- PdS> If you treat 100MB cartridges like floppies you deserve everything
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- 100MB Zip disks can be treated basically like a floppy, so what is the
- problem. If I drop one I can still use it.
-
- PdS> you get. If you need a big floppy, get a Zip by all means. Some people
- PdS> want to be able to run at any SCSI address and things like that ...
-
- I don't see what the big deal is about the ZIP only using SCSI 5 or 6. I have
- 3 hard drives on my system besides the ZIP. Since the system poles the SCSI
- bus starting at unit 0, my three drives are at 0, 1 and 2. Granted the ZIP
- slowed down a *COLD* boot a bit as the system had to look for the devices
- between 2 and 5 but so what. I don't cold boot that often.
-
- PdS> or need the higher performance.
-
- In real world applications, is the difference that much different? I don't
- know.
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