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Until the click of death. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

I'm more in favour of MiniDisc. Compact enough, large enough for storage but Sony screwed up with DRM requiring a Sonic Stage, eurk.

Nothing bets a hardrive wrapped in a blanket, in case you accidentally hit or drop the bag you put it in. This is how we did in my university, in late 1990s.

Jazz drives FTL

Literally threw one against a wall to destroy it and never get tempted to use one ever again.

Went back to a 150Mb QIC tape drive for a while thanks to Jazz.

The stuff of nightmares.

Jaz was really that bad? I've been pondering buying a scsi one for my retro PC.

minidisk or superdisk ftw

Look up the Jaz drive click of death. It was in a class of its own.

I knew Zip has them, but I've only ever seen 2 or 3 Jaz drives, and they were working fine in the late 90s... Shame really, CF to IDE and bluescsi don't work on every PC.

i only used a zip drive once or twice. obviously that was decades ago, but in my head they are still the height of computing luxury.

Click. Click. Click.