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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Message-ID: <4270@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 11:31:44 GMT
References: <9549.26f8a1f0@rsmas.miami.edu> <1990Sep21.140502.8273@ariel.unm.edu> <2306@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
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In article <2306@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group) writes:
>In article <1990Sep21.140502.8273@ariel.unm.edu> wilcox@hydra.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) writes:
>>Well, this is terribly frightful, especially since I had just last night
>>finally made a decision to by a DPI Syquest as my backup of choice, over
>>a Teac tape system.
> 
>I'd take the Syquest any day over one of those Teac tape drives... From 
>personal experience, I've never been happy with the Teac.

Well, just so you can have two different points of view, mine is the
exact opposite.  I've had one experience with a Syqest drive and never
want to have another -- it just left a bad taste in my mouth.

On the other hand, I've had a Teac drive for about a year+ now and have
been extrememly happy with it.  It has cheaper media costs than the
Syqest (150MB/$25 no compression, up to 300MB/$25 with compression)
and is fast enough for me (6-7MB/minute).  I've always believed that
tapes were the perfect media for backup -- it's a shame that Apple
had to standardize on the dog of tape backups, the DC2000.

Ken


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