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- From: hekr@oslonett.no (Henning Kristiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 16:33:02 GMT
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <1013.6589T602T269@oslonett.no>
- References: <4bq8mg$gp2@guava.epix.net> <4ckqnj$3pv@zipper.zip.com.au>
- <N.010896.202122.58@pool16.ezin.net> <4d1gp5$qt4@guava.epix.net>
- <19960111.7D57488.1438E@mother.com> <4d7ip0$jn2@guava.epix.net>
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- >On Thu, 11 Jan 96 22:49:13, Dan J. Fraser articulated:
- ><>
- ><> In article <4d1gp5$qt4@guava.epix.net> wnear@epix.net (William Near)
- >writes:
- ><>
- ><> > BytesPerSecond 1.45 Mb 950k
- ><> >
- ><> > Formatted Capacity 128 Mb 95 Mb
- ><> >
- ><> > Cost via Mail Order $199.98 $195.00
- ><> >
- ><> > Cost per Cartridge $19.95 $19.95
- ><>
- ><> Chance of data loss 100% 0%
- ><> and drive damage if
- ><> cart dropped 1m to
- ><> concrete
-
- >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.
-
- ME 2!! I've been using SyQuest "SQ3270S" ( 270MB ) for 1,5 years now in my
- amiga 4k/040 and Fastlane Z3 all progs i've tested with says 1.7MB/s and i'm
- WERY happy with it.
-
- OK the cartridges is 2 times HIGHER but the actual size is lika a DISK.
-
- how often will you loose the cartridge in the floor ? ( mine is almost allways
- in the drive!
-
- <sb> Henn!ng Kr!st!ansen / A4ooo/o4o Loaded W!th Fun
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