Hi, Guys,
Well, if you read the magazine reviews, you might believe that the 1.5GB
SyJet cartridge drive would be the Iomega Jazz Drive killer, and the 230MB
EZ-Flier would shoot down the 100MB ZipDrive because both used larger
capacity media and both performed faster than their Iomega counterparts.
What they did not tell you was that the actual cartridges themselves were of
poor quality and manufactured to inconsistent standards. The more robust
and better protected Iomega disks held up much better, and within six months
to a year at most, owners of the supposedly more wonderful SyQuest products
were experiencing lost and corrupted data and failing hardware. The company
went bankrupt and shut down the website.
The website is now back up as a place to download drivers for SyQuest
products. The remains of SyQuest were bought up for cash by the company
they were billed as in process of killing. If you have bought your SyJet or
your EZ-Flier within the past six months and it has a problem, Iomega will
split the cost of repair down the middle with you, at least for a time. If
you bought your SyQuest drive earlier, or bought it used, you're probably on
your own when it breaks.
Maybe some of the technology that made the SyQuest drives a little faster
will find their way into theIomega products very soon, as in the 200MB
capacity ZipDrives coming out and the 2GB Jazz drives, among other products
slated to roll out soon.
Of course, there's still the Orb Drive, the Sony SuperDisk, and some
high-capacity removable drives in Avatar's Shark line among others ready to
vie for your attention.
Oh, yes, another casualty of the SyQuest fiasco was Nomai, who were the
actual manufacturer of the latest SyQuest drives. They're gone, too.
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Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA
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