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Yeah, the jaz was more of a portable HD alternative. SCSI interface and disk of 1GB spinning at 5400RPM! It was awesome at the time and I remember ”multi boot
by jordanbeiber 7y ago
Yeah, the jaz was more of a portable HD alternative.
SCSI interface and disk of 1GB spinning at 5400RPM!
It was awesome at the time and I remember ”multi booting” my Gateway 2000 with a jaz - RH Linux, Win95 & winNT on separate removable disks.
- ericd 7y agoDid Jaz suffer from the same click-of-death issues as the Zip?
- jordanbeiber 7y agoNo, never for me at least. And I used 4 discs for a couple of years as harddrives. The jaz drive/discs were of much higher quality from what you could tell from touch as well as price. :p
- codazoda 7y agoIt did not. The Jaz had hard disk platters in the cartridge while the Zip had soft. The "Click of Death" was actually not a single failure. The drive would click once when the head came out to read and then again when it parked. There were over 100 failure types that could cause the drive or disk to fail. When the drive did fail the drive would double click as the head came out, failed, then went back in. The Zip drive failure rate was about 1.5% originally, then down below 1% by the settlement for "Click of Death".
- ericd 7y agoThanks! Jaz was outside my budget at the time, but interesting stuff! Seemed to happen on a disk by disk basis for me, rather than on the drive as a whole. Guessing the failure rate was much higher than 1% for disks.