3 Dec
2012
3 Dec
'12
1:05 a.m.
At 10:54 PM -0500 12/2/12, David Riley wrote:
On Dec 2, 2012, at 22:32, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I had one of the very first SCSI ones for my PowerBook 520c. It was
great while it lasted. IIRC, my G4/450 AGP came with one built in, I
never used it, except to recover some data.
OTOH, I rather liked the Syquest drives I've had.
Zane
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Wow! I'll admit that having been hit by the
'click of death',
they scare the **** out of me.
I've used them since they first came out and have never
experienced the CoD. Anecdotal evidence suggests
that the later (i.e., 250 and up) drives and/or disks suffered
from either engineering shortcomings or a total lack of QA.
I've never used anything other than the 100s, largely because
those were all the SCSI ones I ever had and I primarily used
them on Macs (somehow I have an ATA internal one
and a SCSI external one as well; I don't recall hearing
good things about the USB ones, even the early ones).