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- From: dfraser@mother.com (Dan J. Fraser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 96 10:33:15
- Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
- Message-ID: <19960120.7BBE7C8.9763@mother.com>
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- In article <19960119.7459088.1427B@fcircus.sat.tx.us> Charles_P_Peterson@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Charles P Peterson) writes:
- > 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.
-
- You're lucky. You might have suffered an instant head crash and destroyed
- your new EZ drive. I know five people who have Syquest drives, and NONE
- have gone without losing at least 88MB of data after mishandling the media.
- Two of those people tried to re-insert dropped media in their drive, and
- the drive ate itself.
-
- Again, be happy, you're lucky.
-
- > 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.
-
- Floppy disks are not indestructable. But, they are quite robust. You can
- chuck them around the room with very little problem. You can sit on them,
- bend them (up to a point)... and they'll survive. If the shutter is
- damaged, you can rip it off and stick the disk in the drive to make a
- backup. It is hard to do severe damage to flexible media.
-
- If you drop a Syquest cart and it DOESN'T shatter, any slight deviation
- from "flat and true" in the platter will destroy the drive the next time
- the disk is inserted... and you don't have a hope in hell of retrieving
- your data.
-
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