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In article <1993Jan19.203859.9633@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes:
>In article 20468@cunews.carleton.ca, gfrajkor@alfred.carleton.ca (George Frajkor) writes:
>>
>>    I own a Toad Computers Syquest drive, which I bought second hand
>>about two years ago and have no complaints about.  However, I am told
>>that Ricoh has a similar removeable-media drive that is
>>cartridge-incompatible with Syquest but is supposed to be more
>>reliable and faster and etc.   Similarly, I am told that Bernoulli
>>drives are far more sturdy and reliable.  And that they are all being
>>made obsolete by the new flopticals.
>>       In a short while (e.g. income tax rebate time) I will be in the
>>market for additional storage and was going to go for a Syquest, but
>>am now hesitating and considering the alternatives.
>>    Who's had enough experience with all of the above to comment
>>intelligently on the choices?  My computers are 1040ST, Mega2ST,
>>Mega4ST.  Nothing fancy on them. 
>
>
>I don't have any experience with the Ricoh mechanism, sorry.
>
>I've used 44Mb Syquest units for about five years now with no problems
>whatsoever.  In my experience, I have not found our Bernoulli equipped
>systems to be any faster or more reliable than the Syquest units.  Their
>physical structure should lead to more reliability, but that has not been
>borne out in my work experience.  If you really want to get a new drive,
>I'd consider the newer 88Mb Syquest mechs.  They are faster than the 44Mb
>units and can read (but not write) your existing 44Mb cartridges.  Some
>folks may also recommend the new floptical drives but few people would
>be happy with the speed of these units as their primary storage.  IMHO.
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>___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________
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>

The new Syquest drives (model 5110C) will read and write 44 meg drives,
although the writes to 44 meg cartidges will be 2x as slow.

Darren king, GBC --> gbcusg@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

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