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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1250)	6/10/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

Backup: SparQ IDE (perhaps inside removable drive trays) The price has just dropped on these, and a $30 rebate was announced effective June 1 if one buys 3 carts ($90) and a drive ($160). This gives you a total of 4 _bootable_ 1 gig cartridges that offer near hard drive speeds. Got a very interesting e-mail in response to a query on the Syquest board re this. Here's the reply and the follow-ups: "I can't direct you to a thread but I can tell you about my experience with the SparQ IDE drive. It fits in a 3.5" drive slot and I have all my drives (5 systems) mounted in Removable Frames which fit in a 5.25" slot. I cut out the front of one of my Removable Frames and installed the SparQ in it. Works great! My goal is backup speed and I do a full image backup often (every couple of days). I use 'Ghost' software which fits everything you need on a 3.5" floppy and boots from DOS. You get the exact image clone of the drive so you don't lose long filenames etc. You can choose a straight cloning operation or backup to an image file but I use straight cloning because of speed (I get about 70 MB/min backup speed on a 1 gig drive). Also, if you want to restore a file (other than a working Windows file - I use Windows 95), you can just copy it from the backup. Hope this gives you some insight." My reply (in relevant part): "If I read you right, you answered exactly the question I'd hoped to see treated: namely, whether or not the EIDE internal drive will work properly _inside_ a 5.25 drive frame. (I gather that by "all my drives" below you mean both your hard drives and your Sparq?) The speed sounds great--I gather you've had super reliability too so far?" His answer: "That is exactly what I have. All of the Removable Frames are interchangeable. I can even boot from the SparQ if I put the SparQ driver in the config.sys. Please note that I am really only interested in full image backup from DOS and even though I can read and write the SparQ across the network from Windows 95. I don't intend to use it much in that mode." Another interesting option to think about. I've used the parallel Sparq with good results.