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Subject: Syquest 45 Meg Removables
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Date: 2 Mar 90 04:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: robbins@owlnet.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins)
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two cheapest are Ehman and Mirror Technologies.  Maxcess seems to make quality
products, at a higher price, along with Microtech, at an even higher price.
Mass Microsystems is out of the question with their stratospheric pricing
method.
From: robbins@rice.edu (Thomas Robbins)
Path: robbins

As far as comparing the drives' actual quality, I have tried to extrapolate
from MacUser's reviews of standard hard drives last month, to get a sort of
measure of the *company's* quality.  I did this by averaging the ratings for
all of each vendor's products.

All of the vendors have two year warranties, the *new* 20 ms, 30,000 hr MTBF
Syquest mechanism, and internal fans.

This gives us:

VENDOR		PRICE		RATING
Ehman		$750		3.0
Mirror Tech	$750		4.25
Maxcess		$850		4.5
Microtech	$1100		5.0

To me it seems like the best quality/price deal is from Mirror Tech.  Can
anybody comment about experience with these companies, their service, or
their Syquest products?  How about better companies I may have skipped?
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