Too Costly at Any Price...
Written: Aug 22 '00 (Updated Oct 14 '00)
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Pros: Cheap (But Unfortunately, In Every Sense of the Word...)
Cons: Uh, Well, Where Do I Start?...
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| RBradford's Full Review: SYQT SyQuest SparQ (SPARQ1AI-01) Drive |
I admit, I actually bought three Syquest drives, two internal Syjet 1.5GB drives and one external. Why? The first one was the internal EIDE drive and seemed like a bargain on an auction site. At that time, 1.5GB of removable storage space seemed awesome, and CD-R/RW drives were not yet common or affordable. The second was an external drive, for connection to my laptop for file sharing. The third, another internal, was to replace the short-lived one that I had initially purchased. The external drive is probably the most reliable, but all had major faults.
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Buy ANY Syquest Drives:
(and no, this isn't Letterman and not meant to be funny)
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<li>Syquest went bankrupt (probably for a good reason), therefore forget about any warranty service.
<li>Faulty drives will ruin good data cartridges.
<li>Faulty data cartridges will ruin good drives.
<li>It is impossible for common man to determine whether the cartridge or the drive is defective.
<li>Repair service costs more than buying another drive and cartridge through internet auctions.
<li>Data may or may not be retrievable from Syquest cartridges, use at your own risk.
<li>Syquest drives are known to have "Spitting Cartridge Syndrome" (SCS), resulting in the premature ejection of data cartridges.
<li>SCS can happen at any time for any reason, usually preceeded by an annoying beep like a garbage truck backing up.
<li>Syquest data cartridges can only be used in corresponding Syquest drives. A Sparq 1GB drive will not read a Syjet 1.5GB cartridge and vice versa. It is also very unlikely that your friends will have Syquest drives for the purpose of sharing files.
<li>Cartridges are overpriced and can be difficult to find, especially when compared to CD-R/RW media.
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These drives are unreliable and the media is too costly. Save your money and buy a CD-R/RW drive. After all, do you want to save your data knowing that it may or may not be accessible later?
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