Rob S
2006-11-07 12:27:55 UTC
On 6 Nov 2006 10:03:35 -0800, "Christian Blackburn"
<***@Yahoo.com> wrote:
-
-Before you make a response like that I suggest you do a search for the
-click of death. I know my father and I lost about 13 zip disks between
-the two of us. Not only that but every drive you put a thereafter bad
-disk in will also suffer the click of death. The only thing that was
-ever good about zip drives was people beginning to adopt larger media
-sizes. The only reason Zip drive were so popular is that they stole
-their name from PKWare's compression format. Many people just knew Zip
-files were good/cool so they bought the drive not evening knowing the
-difference. A CD-RW is also re-writeable using the right software, but
-isn't as magnetically nor pressure sensitive.
You write from your bad experience of Zip disks.
A CD-RW is, I would suggest, hugely more liable to be rendered defective than a
Zip disk. A tiny scratch on a CD renders it useless, and a CD is a lot more
likely to get a scratch than a Zip disk is to get click of death.
I have hundreds of customers using Zip disks daily, and a couple of them have
had the click of death. I agree that Iomega's head-in-sand approach to
responding to this issue was atrocious. However why don't big companies use CDs
or DVDs rather than tape for backup?
CD-RW packet writing software is also notoriously hit or miss. Zips were/are
properly writeable, and removeable. Plus you can simply copy A to B without
using extra software. I have CDs here that will read in one pc but not in
another. This doesn't happen with Zip disks.
Historically, the reason Zips got popular was due to their uptake by Mac users.
Anyhow that's my 2p worth - I didn't see the start of this, but have added the
zip drive group to the thread.
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com
<***@Yahoo.com> wrote:
-
-Before you make a response like that I suggest you do a search for the
-click of death. I know my father and I lost about 13 zip disks between
-the two of us. Not only that but every drive you put a thereafter bad
-disk in will also suffer the click of death. The only thing that was
-ever good about zip drives was people beginning to adopt larger media
-sizes. The only reason Zip drive were so popular is that they stole
-their name from PKWare's compression format. Many people just knew Zip
-files were good/cool so they bought the drive not evening knowing the
-difference. A CD-RW is also re-writeable using the right software, but
-isn't as magnetically nor pressure sensitive.
You write from your bad experience of Zip disks.
A CD-RW is, I would suggest, hugely more liable to be rendered defective than a
Zip disk. A tiny scratch on a CD renders it useless, and a CD is a lot more
likely to get a scratch than a Zip disk is to get click of death.
I have hundreds of customers using Zip disks daily, and a couple of them have
had the click of death. I agree that Iomega's head-in-sand approach to
responding to this issue was atrocious. However why don't big companies use CDs
or DVDs rather than tape for backup?
CD-RW packet writing software is also notoriously hit or miss. Zips were/are
properly writeable, and removeable. Plus you can simply copy A to B without
using extra software. I have CDs here that will read in one pc but not in
another. This doesn't happen with Zip disks.
Historically, the reason Zips got popular was due to their uptake by Mac users.
Anyhow that's my 2p worth - I didn't see the start of this, but have added the
zip drive group to the thread.
-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com