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To: RWC who wrote (4808)	11/18/1997 3:27:00 PM
From: peter gucker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7685

Ithink I will buy one too...I did consider the Zit drive....

To: RWC who wrote (4808)	11/18/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: Chi Ligh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

PCMall has the SparQ in their ad, but don't have it in stock until the first week in December. Looked like it will reach every outlet before Christmas.

To: RWC who wrote (4808)	11/20/1997 10:16:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

>>My IOM Ditto Drive died a couple of weeks ago and I need a back-up drive. I think I'll try a SparQ. The Ditto is less than a year old and it eats tapes. What a piece of c**p!<< RWC - Just curious. Did you try cleaning the heads and capstan? That's a necessary piece of maintenance on all tape drives. I've had the same problem with tape drives by Mountain, Colorado and HP. In each case, a thorough cleaning of the capstan fixed things up. - Allen

To: RWC who wrote (4808)	11/22/1997 1:50:00 PM
From: yihsuen	Respond to of 7685

RWC, Buy two internal IDE SyJets (take advantage of the 'trade-in' program and the 3Gb offer) use them as C: and D:. Go to CompUSA get a product called 'DriveCopy' ($24.99 from PowerQuest). You can back up your whole drive, sector by sector (FAT, FAT32, NTFS ...) from D: to C:. In case you file messed up or even your hard drive died. You can be up and running in seconds. Forget about tape drive, the only reason to use a tape drive is your company need to back up millions of customer data file or financial database in half hour, and those tape drives are very expensive. Good luck.