). It's a bit noisy when a disk is inserted (IMO not as noisy as a HD) but if you dont load or save you can eject the disk and the device is completely quiet. perfect.
CF I really don't like it when it comes to my music because the card is small and flimsy, I like the tuffness of the Zip, though it's bulky It's stern. Sometimes those CF cards reformat and can erase data etc. I don't like them because I don't wanna play around when it comes to music.
nogginj wrote:sometimes you make too much sense too early jones and it leaves us blinded ;]
wikipedia wrote:Iomega has been widely criticized for customer service issues dating back to 1998, when Wired covered the company's $100 million "advertising blitz" at a time of plummeting stocks and two class-action lawsuits brought to the company by frustrated customers.[5] Warned that increased customer demand would overload Iomega's small in-house resources, the company quadrupled the number of customer support representatives in a thirty-day push to meet demand for its popular products. Fee-based technical support (which continues still today) for questions already found in product documentation was seen as the only feasible option in controlling spiralling support costs. Customers were not charged for support incidents in which Iomega was responsible (e.g., defective products). Nonetheless, some customers took exception.
In one lawsuit customers complained that Iomega's warranty promised free technical support, but once customers called, they were told they would be charged. In a second suit the company was charged with not delivering on cash rebates promised on Zip and Jaz drives sold under promotion.[5]
Iomega's faulty zip and jaz drives became known for an anomaly known as "the click of death", where — after a time — zip and jaz drives would no longer be able to read disks and would instead produce a loud clicking sound. Many users reported damaged disks and data loss.[6]
Despite the impact on the company's stock price, and negative media coverage about the company's legal, business, and customer service issues, its sales continued to grow.[5]
mr_debauch wrote:wikipedia wrote:Iomega has been widely criticized for customer service issues dating back to 1998, when Wired covered the company's $100 million "advertising blitz" at a time of plummeting stocks and two class-action lawsuits brought to the company by frustrated customers.[5] Warned that increased customer demand would overload Iomega's small in-house resources, the company quadrupled the number of customer support representatives in a thirty-day push to meet demand for its popular products. Fee-based technical support (which continues still today) for questions already found in product documentation was seen as the only feasible option in controlling spiralling support costs. Customers were not charged for support incidents in which Iomega was responsible (e.g., defective products). Nonetheless, some customers took exception.
In one lawsuit customers complained that Iomega's warranty promised free technical support, but once customers called, they were told they would be charged. In a second suit the company was charged with not delivering on cash rebates promised on Zip and Jaz drives sold under promotion.[5]
Iomega's faulty zip and jaz drives became known for an anomaly known as "the click of death", where — after a time — zip and jaz drives would no longer be able to read disks and would instead produce a loud clicking sound. Many users reported damaged disks and data loss.[6]
Despite the impact on the company's stock price, and negative media coverage about the company's legal, business, and customer service issues, its sales continued to grow.[5]
peterpiper wrote:I just want to add that I have some 12y old MO Disks that still work perfect.
Ok to be honest: You can't buy MO Disks at walmart these days, and you'll have to search to find unused ones. I was lucky to find 20 pieces unused (128 and 230 MB) on ebay for .....if I remember right it was something like 30 Euro.
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nogginj wrote:CF I really don't like it when it comes to my music because the card is small and flimsy, I like the tuffness of the Zip, though it's bulky It's stern. Sometimes those CF cards reformat and can erase data etc. I don't like them because I don't wanna play around when it comes to music.
i respectfully disagree with everything said here.
durability: you can run over a cf card with a truck and it will still work. a zip would shatter.
random reformat: i've never experienced that nor heard of it. cards dont 'reformat' themselves.
fact: your zips will fail much sooner than a cf card. just look around this forum at how many people have lost all their work from zips failing. search "click of death".
fact: zips are hollow, thin plastic with moving parts. that means it will eventually wear out. cards have no moving parts, so they are silent and durable.
fact: zips are older and not used anymore, except by old technology. cards are a moderb medium and used in many modern devices. you can go to walmart and by a memory card, i dont know if you can buy a zip.
in my opinion, zips are the absolute worst option, and like peter said, hard drives are noisy, prone to fail, etc etc.
this question gets asked almost every other day. browse this forums a bit and you'll see.
jonestown massacre wrote:Best option for any hard drive or memory storage is Solid state. Compact flash cards are solid state drives. Ive left my most important 16 GB compact flash card in my pants and ran them **** through the washing machine.. Dried the card out and it still works to this day.
Straight up, floppies get disk read errors all the time, Zip disks get the click of death, most scsi HD's have noisy fans.....IMO CF card is the ONLY smart storage method, and I think the scsicardreaders dude has 32GB CF's coming soon.
And the dude who saids zips are better is high. Wait til your zips start **** out on you. Ive had 0 problems with cf cards for over 5 years on my XL, with 2 different card readers and multitudes of cf cards of various storage sizes. Prior to that, I lost all my sequence (.all) data from a full album on floppies.....Zips are just really big floppy disks.
