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By the late 00's you were as likely to have a Zip drive for smaller (100mb) exchanges... if it weren't for the excessive licensing fees for the disks, the fate
by tracker1 4y ago
By the late 00's you were as likely to have a Zip drive for smaller (100mb) exchanges... if it weren't for the excessive licensing fees for the disks, the fate of the devices might have been a lot different. I really didn't consider thumb drives worth my time until they started getting over 256mb or so, I think it was also after USB3 was a thing, but it's a bit muddied in my memory.
- goosedragons 4y agoNot everybody had a Zip drive and having to transport the entire drive added a lot of bulk. By the time USB 3 hit the scene we were well beyond 256mb. The original iPod Shuffle was basically a USB 2.0 512MB flash drive with an MP3 player bolted on and that was $100 in 2005. I think by then 256MB was probably under $50.
- marcosdumay 4y agoOh, man. Any place you may want to bring that zip disk was already clicking, and you were just lucky that you listened it destroy somebody's else disk before you put yours on. The way to share data was CD-ROM. Everybody had one or two rewritable disks with random stuff on them. But you could use neither the zips nor the CDs for some stuff.
- jaclaz 4y agoZip disks were earlier, in the 1995-2005 decade, by the end of 2000's they were already going towards obsolescence. After the 100 MB, there was the 250 MB and later even came the 750 MB. In my experience they were very handy/useful, particularly for backup use, but they were seriously troubled by the click of death issue. USB 3 came well after 2/4/8 GB USB (2.0) sticks were common enough, USB 3.0 started becoming a common thing around 2010 or later, around 2004/2005 a common USB stick would have been 256 or 512 MB, in a couple years they quickly grew to 1/2/4/8 GB minimum.