Re: ORB drives

2000-05-18 Thread Steven Hildreth
AIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:52 PM Subject: Re: ORB drives > > Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media. > > If the above is true, then in my opinion - DON'T EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS!!! > > ALL drives our company has sold h

Re: ORB drives

2000-05-15 Thread Ken Kirchner
I may purchase one myself in fact. On Tue, 9 May 2000, erik wrote: > I havent had any experience with the orb drives, but I tried the same > thing with the syquest drives. They were made by a different company, > but thier CEO is the same person. syquest went out of business > because th

Re: ORB drives

2000-05-13 Thread Edward Dekkers
> Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media. If the above is true, then in my opinion - DON'T EVEN CONSIDER DOING THIS!!! ALL drives our company has sold have come back broken, Castlewood's web support/e-mail support is non-existant and they've cost us and our custom

Re: ORB drives

2000-05-11 Thread erik
I havent had any experience with the orb drives, but I tried the same thing with the syquest drives. They were made by a different company, but thier CEO is the same person. syquest went out of business because their drives werent that great. At first they got great write ups, and I decided to

ORB drives

2000-05-09 Thread paul almquist
Hi all Does anyone have any experience using Orb removable drives with linux? They have both SCSI and EIDE verisons. The capacity is about 2 GB. They are made by Castlewood Systems, Inc. Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media. I am thinking about using them in s