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- From: Charles_P_Peterson@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Charles P Peterson)
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Message-ID: <19960119.7459088.1427B@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
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- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
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- References: <1013.6589T602T269@oslonett.no>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 04:24:38 GMT
-
- In <1013.6589T602T269@oslonett.no>, hekr@oslonett.no (Henning Kristiansen)
- writes:
- >
- > >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.
-
- Actually, if you have the Syquest cart inside it's padded case, there may
- be less chance of damage because of a drop than the Zip.
-
- I've heard other people talk about mailing, shipping, etc., SyQuest drives
- (in their cases) without problems. My first experience was the very
- first day I owned my EZ-135, I dropped a cart (in its case, luckily)
- three feet to a hard floor. It has had no problems.
-
- Meanwhile, how sure are you of the indestructibility of the Zip's? I
- don't have any firsthand experience with them, but consider that floppies
- are hardly indestructible. I've gotten a lot of them that have been
- damaged by mail. Usually the shutter locks up.
-
- (Note: Reply meant to comments by the original poster.)
-
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