modern removable media drives

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Nov 13 16:30:14 1998

Sam wrote:
> It seems like you have such a horrible failure rate, that if they were
> THAT BAD then SyQuest would have gone under years ago. As it is, they
> lasted for a long time and many people have used their Syquest drives for
> many years with no problems.

We've been using Syjets and Sparqs for a year, although we have not had any
one drive last that long. I've been expecting Syquest to go bankrupt
for a year. I was seriously tempted to sell short on Syquest stock. I
could have made a killing. (The problem with selling short is that if you
guess wrong, your potential loss is unbounded.)

If we were doing something wrong to them, why would they keep replacing
them under warranty?

I seriously doubt that anyone has used their SyJet and Sparq drives
"for many years with no problems."

Eric
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 16:30:14 GMT