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Technology Stocks : SYQUEST -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (6986)	8/10/1998 12:31:00 AM
From: ajd/mba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7685

I guess I should thank my lucky stars that my limit order Friday at $0.50 didn't execute after reading all of the past posts here! I was thinking about buying in because I have heard good things about SYQUEST drives and I personally have had a JAZ that went out after a couple of weeks and the replacement is sounding like it too will crash any day. I guess I'll just lurk a bit longer and see how things are shaping up before I decide to buy. Thanks to all for an education.

To: E. Charters who wrote (6986)	8/10/1998 10:02:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

I have a zip drive (since Apr 96) with 13 zip disks and a jaz drive (since Oct 96) with 9 jaz disks, use them every day and have never had a problem with either one of them!!!!! One use of my zip drive is I back up my 4+Mb Quicken file on alternating zip disks (one for odd days and one for even days). Another use is I have backups of all my tax files created with TurboTax since 1992. Iomega has officially stated that the vaunted "click of death" affects less than 1 % of all drives sold. I purposely partitioned my hard drive so that all my frequently used software is on a 1 Gb C partition with other downloaded stuff on a 1 Gb D partition. I regularly back up both partitions to jaz disks via Drive Image software from Powerquest. Takes about 55 minutes for each partition because Drive Image creates one contiguous image file that is verified while it is being created....a bit by bit image of the entire partition, including the Windows 95 registry. Last April my hard drive crashed and after installing a new one I restored my C partition in 25 minutes (no verify required for restore). Everything was there exactly like before!!! This saved me about 3 days of re-installing all my software and trying to remember all my personal preferences. I simply couldn't be more satisfied with my Iomega drives!!!! Dave

To: E. Charters who wrote (6986)	8/10/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Rock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

You must not be operating your stuff correctly - I have a zip drive just for backing up my laptop and never had a hic up... I work closely with the graphics industry and I've never heard of such troubles like you've experienced. We talking huge amounts of data being bounced to Zips, Dittos and of course, Syquest disc seems to be the only format (a little exobyte now and then) that customers use to store and transport their graphic files... (at least my customers) These devices can't be that unreliable and have sold sooo many units...sorry you've had so much trouble.... ROCK