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It 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 cli
by codazoda 7y ago
It 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.