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From: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Message-ID: <4283@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 90 11:50:33 GMT
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In article <53@genco.uucp> rad@genco. (Bob Daniel) writes:
>In article <4270@husc6.harvard.edu> kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>>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.
>
>If your Mac bombed when you first used it would you go to DOS?  Actually,
>it probably depends on the driver you use and how it was terminated.  I have

No, I wouldn't.  But I also know the difference between a bomb and
corrupted data.  In my case, a cartridge was mailed to me containing
data for a project I was working on.  4+ megs were corrupted.  Even
after 5 hours with SUM II, very little of it was recovered.

>as APS SyQuest but use SilverLining.  I feel more comfortable using a
>cartridge than worry about a tape restoring.  At least I can use Norton 
>Utils if a cartidge crashes (which hasn't happened yet).  If a tape goes
>bad, then your outa lu(uck (which has happened too often).

If a tape goes bad, information is written redundantly.  You'd have to
have a large portion of the tape go bad to lose information.  If your
directory gets trashed on your SyQuest, even Norton may not be able
to recover it.

>I don't think tape is the best method.  Tape can be affected too easily
>from strong magnetic fields.  And if a tape goes bad.... no Norton to
>turn to.  Waiting for a restore is not better than instant access.  I sold
>my Teac, I've lost too much using it.

Well, I realize that -your- SyQuest has performed flawlessly.  But I
also know lots of people who have had no ends to trouble.  Thanks, but
I have to wonder about a company that needed 140 revisions of their
controller board [read MacWeek] to get all the bugs worked out.
(There's another laugh -- no bugs?)  Me, I'll stick with tape, I'll
be happy with it, and I won't play russian roulette with my backups.

Ken

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