Comment on They Made a Zip Drive.. for your TV?!
espentan@lemmy.world 6 days agoNo tape, it was essentially just a high density/capacity floppy drive. Unfortunately for iomega it wasn’t high density enough to compete with CD-R as the price of burners and media dropped.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Zip and Jazz drives had some serious data stability issues that would have sunk them anyway. I used them for school work and needed to have duplicates because it was a question of when the disk would fail, not if.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Same with normal floppy disks. Their reliability was abysmal, as was their longevity.