🚀 go-pugleaf

>Recently I asked if anyone had experience with any of the various 45MB
>removable disk drives.  Apparently all the different brands are made by
>the same manufacturer, Syquest.

yup.

>and they say, as with any hard disk drive, BACK UP YOUR DATA!  Well, backup
>is what I want to use the drive for in the first place

That's why I bought one.

>Has anyone out there had consistently good experience with these things,
>or are they indeed shaky?

I've only had mine for about a week, but I love it.  I have never owned a
tape back up, but I think the removable disk makes more sense assuming that
45 MBytes is enough.  I look at it this way:  If my internal drive should
go, I've still got a bootable drive.  If I had purchased a tape backup,
which isn't perfectly reliable either, and the internal disk had gone,
then I am stuck for a while.  However, the removable disk media is more
expensive.

I plan on getting more removable drives, they're great as far as I can tell.

My only complaint is that the finder won't copy lots of files at once, even
when I allocate lots of memory to the finder.