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From: sohn@Apple.COM (a phil sohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Message-ID: <10354@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 90 17:33:22 GMT
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	Our group has been using Mass microsystems Syquest drives for
ten months.  (We have about ten of them.)  We have never had a problem
with the internal hard disk crashing!

	I did crash one of the removable cartridges, but it was
handled roughly.  I was able to recover all of the files and reformat
the drive though.  (I am still using it today.)

	I would recommend using a Syquest drive for primary storage
over a traditional hard drive.  It IS difficult to copy from one
cartridge to another; however, it is easy to use one disk for
programming, one for word processing, one for music applications, one
for games, etc.  Syquest drives also have a quick access time.  (One
of my friends is using a Syquest drive as his only hard disk, and he
loves it.)

	On the down side, I don't care for internal termination:
it seems to be the cause of some problems.  It is difficult to connect
several SCSI drives that all have internal termination, especially
when the manufactures don't tell you how to remove the internal
terminator.  One of our machines even needs a terminator on a SCSI
drive that has an internal terminator!

	In summary, I have extensively used Syquest drives and have
found them as reliable as traditional hard disks.  I also believe that
Syquest drives are viable as the only hard disk on a system.
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	a phil sohn		sohn@apple.com	<- ARPA
				phil@ems.media.mit.edu
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Since I am self employeed, I hope that my opinion and that
of my employeer are one and the same.
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