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From: syap@cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam)
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Subject: Re: 45MB removable disk reliability
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Date: 14 May 89 23:10:24 GMT
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The 45M removable units are very nice.  One friend of mine works at
a desktop publishing place, and the owners of that were so impressed
with the Mass Micro drive that they now sell them at a discount, so 
their customers with large scans can bring them in on cartridges.

They have had numerous crashes with the unit, but this seems to be
NOT the fault of the drive or media.  People frequently smoke near
the machines, and they have every bizarre device imaginable in the
SCSI chain.  Plus some of the customers don't know how to eject the
disks properly.

As far as backing up, you can get a dual removable, so that you could
back up your cartridges on other cartridges, and get the best of both
worlds.  I've seen this as low as $2300.

As soon as I can afford one, I'm getting it.  They aren't totatlly
crash proof, but then again, what is?

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