Yokohammer wrote:But Zip drives ... they were truly a mess. For some reason they become really popular in the music production field for a short while. Until people started losing their hard work, that is. When their true level of reliability became apparent they disappeared almost overnight. They were relatively cheap (which I guess was the reason for their popularity), but you got what you paid for (i.e. crap).
Yet... compared to Jazz... they were bulletproof... I don't remember a jazz disk not failling on me... they were just a hard drive mechanism with removable platters...
Also who remember those dreadfull Syquest SCSI drives ? they were quite popular in the edition/pre press world... with a reliability second to... Lada or Yugo... only... (in ascending order)
Now I have a 6TB raid 5 array for barely 5 mans... and not a fracking way to backup anything... Sometimes you miss the days of the rosetta stone...
