price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) (03/08/91)
Here's one I haven't seen before:
Background: I used to live with my parents. I have a mac+ and a
Mirror 45Mb removable ("new" Syquest mechanism) hard drive. My parents
bought themselves a blank disk to use with my drive, which they loaded up
with all sorts of stuff (as parents are wont to do... :)
I have since moved out, and I took my mac+ and hard drive with me.
They have their own SE, but no hard drive. They are interested in getting
one, however. Since I needed a new disk anyway, I took theirs after
backing it up to floppies with Redux 1.62.
Now the questions: first, for the c.s.m.hardware folks, are there
any compelling reasons *not* to buy a Mirror drive? The latest price in
MacUser is $617. That's the one they're "used" to, and they'd sort of
prefer to stay with that brand. I doubt that they need a removable, but
they're sold on that sort of drive. Please don't try to convince me that
they wouldn't need one. I've already tried convincing them. You know how
parents are. :)
Second, for the c.s.m.apps folks, assuming that there is a good
reason to get another drive, are there any problems transferring a Redux
backup set from a particular brand of drive to another one? There
shouldn't be, since ideally the program shouldn't care what sort of drive
I try to restore to, as long as it's big enough, but I'd like to hear it
from someone who knows more about what they're talking about than I do.
Thanks in advance!
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