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

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Robert Sinland wrote:

> >
> > > > 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.
> >
>
>  Sorry for the spam, but after minimal research on the problem, it would seem that the
> problem
> is confined to the newer drives and not the older ones, thus my lack of problems :)
> (yet)

That could very well be, I have an older Zip that I have not had problems with.  It is
tough to tell someone, however, to purchase an older version of something because the
newer one is junk.

--
Perry Hoekstra

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