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Article #2114Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
From: Roger Tang
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1989 19:30
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1989 19:30
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In article <20216@paris.ics.uci.edu> truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes: >gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes: > >> I'm using mine as a primary storage device currently. This is working >>out fairly well for the time being, though I haven't had it for too long. >>THey're are definitely ideal as a second or backup HD, and my experience >>seems to say that they don't do too badly as a primary. > >Reports are starting to surface on CompuServe and elsewhere about the >inadvisability of using the SyQuests as a primary drive. It appears >that they really aren't designed for the extended duty-cycle of a >primary drive and the SyQuest mechanism itself can fail prematurely. Let's hear some more about these reports. It's the first I've heard about these..... -- Roger Tang Rest Home for Ex-Asian American Radical Pinko Commie Punks gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!caesar!blake!gwangung From: gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it? Message-ID: <3007@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 29 Jul 89 19:30:40 GMT References: <9095@venera.isi.edu> <3000@blake.acs.washington.edu> <20216@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: gwangung@blake.acs.washington.edu (Roger Tang) Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 40