Re: Jaz or SyJet?

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From: Stephan Eggermont
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:00

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Robert Pelzmann (robertp366@earthlink.net) wrote:
> OTOH, Syquest is superior technology to Iomega. 

Knowing something about the technology would help.

> Essentially its the
> ultimate floppy (bernouoli technique fo flying read head on dynamic air
> gap in floppy media) from Iomega vs the smallest removable hard disk -
> plated metal disks and all from Syquest. 

What a nonsense. Bernouilli technology is more reliable than removable hd, 
and it is not used by zip and jaz.

> I have used both companies products for years. Syquest are the only
> archive quality data retention rates, and all our system backups are on
> their drives.

Syquests were cheap, that is the reason they were used.
And that is a good reason. But not anymore.

Stephan

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Subject: Re: Jaz or SyJet?
Date: 1997/01/28
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