PaPa — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:02:51 +0000

Thanks guys, for the feedback!

And the suggestion of 2 backup sources is sound advice that I had not considered--though I certainly will now.

--Papa

mairving — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:48:10 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Hensler
That's old... notice the article says that Iomega knew about the problem in 1999?

Iomega has known about the click of death well before 1999. I had it occur in a machine bought back in 1997. It was a known issue then. That was about the same time that I learned never to do a backup to just one place (in this case a zip disk).

So do I want to get in on this class action lawsuit. Well the main prize is a rebate on any Iomega drive that you buy. I think that I will pass on that one.

Mark Hensler — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:41:47 +0000

That's old... notice the article says that Iomega knew about the problem in 1999?

I've been lucky and have only had on ZIP disk fall victim to the 'Click of Death'. It was a 100MB internal ZIP drive in a computer in a computer lab at a community college (so it was bound to happen).

I own a 250MB USB ZIP drive (over a year), and have had no problems with it (yet). I don't store files on them though, I only use ZIP disks for transfering files between computers when I can't use a network. For large data storage, I use my 30GB hard drive, or the CD burner in my brother's machine.