Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!uupsi!oswego!news From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Syquest Removables: Good or Bad? Message-ID: <1990Nov5.232525.12265@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 5 Nov 90 23:25:25 GMT References: <98@genco.uucp> <26932@cs.yale.edu> <106@genco.bungi.com> Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY Lines: 28 In article Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) writes: >My anecdotal experience has shown me that the Syquests are just as solid as >any other hard drive (other than the fact that the removable media is a lot >easier to drop on the floor -- and even then they've been surprisingly >robust). Unfortunately, my experience has been different. We bought a Mass Micro drive a couple years ago. When it works, it's *wonderful*, but when it doesn't..... It's been back to the factory at least twice, as have several of the cartridges. We don't use them heavily, mostly for backups. Out of four cartridges, one refuses to format reliably now. I was all psyched up to buy one of these for my home machine, but my experiences here have soured me on the idea. Right now we're using the drive as a substitute for a broken hard disk. It frequently refuses to boot, and we occaisionally get messages like "Please insert the disk DataPak" as though it had been ejected when in fact it hasn't. I really like the idea, and the speed is great, but (at least in our case) the reliability just isn't there.... == Boyd Ostroff, Tech Director == Sys Admin, "The CallBoard" == |||| Dept of Theatre, SUNY Oswego |||| Serving the Performing Arts |||| |||| (315) 341-2987 |||| 315-947-6414 1200/2400 baud 8N1 |||| == ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu == cboard!sysop@oswego.oswego.edu ==