It’s a simple test really. Have you ever considered thinking about having a inclination to plug the drive in? Well it’s probably broke now.

In all seriousness, I used Zip and Jazz drives professionally back in the early '00s. And gods above and below we lost so many hours of work to them just crapping out. We used them for system imaging. We were building out bespoke servers and workstations for physical access control systems. We stored golden images on zip discs and would image completed systems to send to the customers along with their systems. We created those images on other zip discs before taking them to the one system with a cd/dvd burner. We chewed through so many zip discs it was crazy.

I finally setup the dvd burning station on a cart so it could be wheeled over to customer systems. It provided a PXE server to boot from and images to both load the golden image over a network switch and image the competed systems. The savings in time and dead zip discs was huge.

I get playing with those things for nostalgia. But the only thing they could be relied upon to do was die.