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- From: ASanta-Pinter@ezin.net (Alex Santa-Pinter)
- Organization: Alex & Co.
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 96 02:21:22 GMT
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
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- > In article <4bq8mg$gp2@guava.epix.net> wnear@epix.net (William Near)
- > writes:
- > > I am considering getting a ZIP drive for my A2000, but I
- > > have also been looking at the SyQuest 135. The SCSI version
- > > of the ZIP drive goes for about $195 and the SyQuest 135 can
- > > be had for about $239.
- > >
- > > Does anyone have any experience with both of these drives?...
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- If you need performance, for the price difference, the SyQuest drives are still
- better, ie: faster access times and transfer rates, but slower to startup
- (because of housekeeping and spinup time).
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- Also note that the SyQuest holds almost 35% more data.
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