On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Lachlan Dunlop wrote:

How does the syquest compare to the JAZ Drive from Iomega. I personally have had nothing but headaches from every Iomega product.

I really don't know. I installed my Syquest SparQ in my machine at about the same time as I installed SuSE on my machine. I then fdisk'ed a cartridge, changed the type from DOS to 83 (Linux), did an e2mkfs on the resulting partition, mounted it, and copied my archives directory over there (around 600mb of stuff downloaded from the net over the years). About 3 minutes later it was through. FAST. Faster than hard drives used to be, though not faster than current hard drives ("only" 12ms access time). Don't know how it'll be as far as reliability goes yet, tho. And as far as speed goes, the JAZ on a SCSI bus should still be a bit faster (SparQ only comes as IDE). But for 1/3rd the cost per megabyte, I'll give up a little speed!

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You may wish to look at the SyQuest SparQ. 1gb per disk, only costs $199 U.S., disks only cost $30 or so U.S.... much more affordable than zip.

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