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SyQuest Lifespan
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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From 1989 to 1993, I backed up most of my files on a 44MB SyQuest drive, the magnetic drive that was a predecessor to the EZ 135 and Iomega Zip drives. Now, over a decade later, I'm using a first-generation G3 as a middleman, in order to take these files and dump them on a Snow iMac, where they will eventually be burned onto DVDs. When copying each disk, I lose a few files due to various disk errors. Is this supposed to happen? These disks have been cared for as well as possible; how long are they supposed to last? I'm certainly glad that I'm transferring them to more-modern media now, then later when there is more degredation.
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Some people call me the space cowboy. Yeah. Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice (woo hoo!), 'cause I speak of the pompitous of love.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Chattanooga, TN
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I've had very similar problems with the (slightly) more recent SyQuest 270. I had files that just ended up being corrupted. The media was just degraded and took portions of the file with it. Oh well, it's not too terribly bad. I figure that I only lost about 5% of the info I had stored on the disks. Plus, several of the disks were pretty well abused back in the day when I used the drive constantly. Surprised I could even mount some of the disks. As for lifespan, I would say that it's defintely a good thing to be moving those files ASAP.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally posted by TheJoshu:From 1989 to 1993, I backed up most of my files on a 44MB SyQuest drive, the magnetic drive that was a predecessor to the EZ 135 and Iomega Zip drives.
I had an old MASS Microsystems DataPak drive, which used the same cartridges as the SyQuest drive, with my old Mac Classic. In fact, it still is hooked up, and still works. My mom uses the Classic sometimes because it has a printer which she can feed postcards into. Anyway, to date I have not actually seen any problems with the old drive, and it's still in use. If the degradation of the cartridges is only minor, you might be able to recover the lost data with DiskWarrior, TechTool, or Norton.
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