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From: gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
Message-ID: <3007@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 89 19:30:40 GMT
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Reply-To: gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
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In article <20216@paris.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes:
>gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
>
>>	I'm using mine as a primary storage device currently.  This is working
>>out fairly well for the time being, though I haven't had it for too long.
>>THey're are definitely ideal as a second or backup HD, and my experience
>>seems to say that they don't do too badly as a primary.
>
>Reports are starting to surface on CompuServe and elsewhere about the 
>inadvisability of using the SyQuests as a primary drive. It appears 
>that they really aren't designed for the extended duty-cycle of a 
>primary drive and the SyQuest mechanism itself can fail prematurely.


	Let's hear some more about these reports.  It's the first I've heard
about these.....




















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Roger Tang
Rest Home for Ex-Asian American Radical Pinko Commie Punks
gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu