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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: removable hard drives
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Date: 31 May 90 16:18:58 GMT
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In article <1990May31.143801.16615@kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>ALL mac suppliers except Bernoulli use the same SyQuest
>mechanism (20-22ms, 44-45 MB)
>
>Note, SyQuest previously (last year) had another similar
>mechanism with an access time of 25ms and MTBF of 12000 hrs.
>The new one (which I think everybody now uses - at least
>those with high volumes) has a MTBF of 20-30000 hrs.

Actually, Microtech is selling the new Ricoh R50 removable
cartridge drives.  Supposedly they're more reliable than
the SyQuests.  (One would certainly hope...)


Ken


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