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From: ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest 45 Meg Removables
Message-ID: <34779@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 90 19:09:57 GMT
References: <5414@brazos.Rice.edu>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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In article <5414@brazos.Rice.edu>, root@rice.edu (Brazos) writes:
> 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.

I would just like to point out that These prices quoted are all list.
However I found Ehman has no 'street' price where as I have been able
to get quite a discount from Microtech.  (I have no experiance with
the other two companies.)  By discount I mean I got a Microtech at
Macworld last summer for under $800 and a friend of mine just purchased
on for about $850.  Also Microtech comes with two SCSI cables and they
remove the internal termination from the Syquest unit and give you an
external terminator.  I use my Microtech as my boot disk for doing
development work and I boot from my internal disk all the other time.
I like the product a lot.

By the way, my friend had a PLI unit for the past 18 months.  It died
a month ago and so he sent it in for repair.  They told him it would
cost $520 because they had to replace the drive mechanisim.  This
seemed a little high since the quantity price for a Syquest drive is
in the $350 range so he told them to forget it and he bought a Microtech.

As usual I don't own stock or nuthin' in Michrotech I just like their
new name.

Pete Hoch