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From: pweiss%samu@Sun.COM (Paul Weiss - pweiss@sun.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie disks -- "Well, how are they?"
Keywords: disk drive, Macintosh, SCSI
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Date: 16 Mar 89 14:54:40 GMT
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I've been using one of their 80 M drives for about 3 months, and it seems
just fine.  It uses the Quantum drive, which is fast and has a good MTBF -
about 50,000 hours, if I remember, which is over 5 years.

The included software is also very nice:  not only the usual drivers and 
partitioners, but some software to share and protect volumes, printers, and
(again, if I remember correctly) modems in an AppleTalk net.

The box is cheap - they only do direct sales.

		Paul