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- From: gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (I. Barnett)
- Subject: Re: Removeable media
- Message-ID: <C18360.Fzq@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: UTCS Public Access
- References: <1993Jan19.044658.20468@cunews.carleton.ca> <1993Jan19.203859.9633@newshost.lanl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:17:59 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <1993Jan19.203859.9633@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes:
- >In article 20468@cunews.carleton.ca, gfrajkor@alfred.carleton.ca (George Frajkor) writes:
- >>
- >> I own a Toad Computers Syquest drive, which I bought second hand
- >>about two years ago and have no complaints about. However, I am told
- >>that Ricoh has a similar removeable-media drive that is
- >>cartridge-incompatible with Syquest but is supposed to be more
- >>reliable and faster and etc. Similarly, I am told that Bernoulli
- >>drives are far more sturdy and reliable. And that they are all being
- >>made obsolete by the new flopticals.
- >> In a short while (e.g. income tax rebate time) I will be in the
- >>market for additional storage and was going to go for a Syquest, but
- >>am now hesitating and considering the alternatives.
- >> Who's had enough experience with all of the above to comment
- >>intelligently on the choices? My computers are 1040ST, Mega2ST,
- >>Mega4ST. Nothing fancy on them.
- >
- >
- >I don't have any experience with the Ricoh mechanism, sorry.
- >
- >I've used 44Mb Syquest units for about five years now with no problems
- >whatsoever. In my experience, I have not found our Bernoulli equipped
- >systems to be any faster or more reliable than the Syquest units. Their
- >physical structure should lead to more reliability, but that has not been
- >borne out in my work experience. If you really want to get a new drive,
- >I'd consider the newer 88Mb Syquest mechs. They are faster than the 44Mb
- >units and can read (but not write) your existing 44Mb cartridges. Some
- >folks may also recommend the new floptical drives but few people would
- >be happy with the speed of these units as their primary storage. IMHO.
- >---
- >
- >___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
- >_________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________
- >________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________
- >____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
- >
- >
-
- The new Syquest drives (model 5110C) will read and write 44 meg drives,
- although the writes to 44 meg cartidges will be 2x as slow.
-
- Darren king, GBC --> gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
-
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