Re: [TCLUG:14864] power-eject floppy drives for PCs?

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

"Eric M. Hopper" wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:33:13PM -0600, Scott Dier - dieman wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:
> >
> >> Besides, Zip drives don't handle 3.5" media ;-)
> >
> > Heh. A client asked if he could do backups on a zip drive.  I had
> > problems not starting to laugh out loud at him ;)
>
>         Out of curiosity, what's so bad about Zip drives?

I don't know about their 250MB Zip or JAZ drives.  My experience comes from using
their 100MB Zip drives.  Just before I had posted that letter, I had called Iomega
to replace my second Zip drive which I had only had for about three months.  They
suffer from a condition called "Click Death".  I would not recommend their purchase.

--
Perry Hoekstra

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