I'm certainly not one to defend companies. My comments are based on my experience
and I do feel that Syquest drives were faster, more reliable, had better compatability and
typically larger storage amounts. In the end though what really bothers me is that Emax
II users are all using different storage media which makes it hard to trade banks and
since all syquest drives are compatible with all Emax II's I do tend to suggest them over
a Zip.
On 27 Nov 2002 at 16:06, mr julian spoke unto me:
>
> >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
>
> >Syquest was the largest removable media drive company before
> >Iomega ran them out of business with the cheaper (in more
> >than just cost) Zip drives.
>
> Now now, John.
> there was a reason iomega ran syquest out of business.
> Take an original syquest cartrige, lift it up say about 50cm off the
> table and then drop it onto the table. Whats the chance that your cart
> is still at all usable? I believe the carts were rated for about a
> 20cm drop. Very unsuitable for portable mass data storage and
> transfer.
>
> And if you had a problem with something breaking, even if you had
> looked after you carts and not droped them - but something else had
> failed, Syquest were arrogant and basically completely unsympathetic.
>
> After zips came out, syquest responded with the ez135 drive, that was
> basically trying to copy zip, but by that time most of their user
> base, frustrated with them for years had found a usable alternative,
> and had already deserted them.
>
>
>
> julian
>
> (who has had a zip drive get click of death and destroy data, but
> still uses them, though with regular backups to the PC nowdays)
>
>
> "Give a man a stick of gum and he will chew for a day. Teach him how
> to scrape gum off stuff and he will chew for a lifetime"
>
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