28 Jan
2006
28 Jan
'06
11:10 a.m.
On 1/27/2006 at 6:39 PM Scott Stevens wrote:
A mildly risky method to use would be to buy one of the
tested
good drives. Read your cartridges, then sell the drive off to
someone else. This will only work if there is reasonable
turnover of the drives on eBay. If someone just has them listed
in the off chance someone will need one, you could end up stuck
with it.
"Midly risky" may be an understatement. In my own experience, these things
would go south for apparently no good reason at all. (e.g. simply stop
working in the middle of writing a disk). If I could get one with a 90 day
warrantee, I might be tempted.
I suspect that the Apex problem was a not insignificant factor contributing
to the bankruptcy of Pinnacle.
Cheers,
Chuck