All I can say is that this is lucky (clapping).
It is reported that American Gizmodo reporter Rishevsky has hated iomega, which is famous for recording media manufacturers, and has been unforgettable for many years.
Have you ever used a zip disk / drive with a cartridge disk? (this is not the ZIP format of the compressed file)
His anger is about Solay.
He hated Iowa Mega from the bottom of his heart, couldn't agree with the company at all, made him angry and frustrated, and couldn't leave anything behind about his college job. I hated this business like my parents' enemies.
That was in the late 1990s.
I am learning how the radio media can talk on radio and television in college. At that time, it was a normal time to move data on floppy disks. 1.4MB (megabytes) is large enough to hold essays and occasional photos, but it's not helpful at all for saving audio, video, or Photoshop data.
It is only now that half a megabyte of data can be stuffed into a nail-sized memory card. 20 years ago, the memory capacity could never have dreamed of such a future.
When I want large-capacity recording media, the demand in the world is still getting higher and higher. As a result, what appeared in 1994 was the zip drive, which can replace the 100MB disk issued by Iomega. External drives sell for about $200 (at that time, the exchange rate is 40-50,000 yen), and a disk costs about 20 dollars (4-5,000 yen). I didn't need expensive teaching materials for my class, so I bought it immediately.
Due to the old parallel port connection, the transmission speed of the zip drive is limited to 1.4MB per second. In spite of this, this drive and disk have become an indispensable part of your studies. I also bought an official cushion box to carry the school and dormitory every day, and finally back up the entire contents of the 1.6GB hard drive of my desktop computer.
The beginning of the end.
Without relying on the school computer, I was able to finish the project in my own room, thanks to the zip drive. But one night, when I finished editing the audio file, I suddenly ended my honeymoon with the zip drive. The drive cannot read any disks. And then it was like hearing the sound of something clicking.
Even if it wasn't as substantial as it is now, there was the Internet at that time. The answer to everything can be found online now, but it was taken for granted to make a support call at that time. So I went to ask Sabrson. Then, this hassle seems to be a frequent problem and it is found that the drive must be replaced. It is very painful for me to drive a car that cannot be used for a while. But after that, something even angrier will happen, which I don't know at this time.
What's the reason?
This problem is the problem of "Iomega click of death", commonly known as "death click". When the magnetic head resets the position repeatedly, the click sound is like this when the data is read from the disk. I have a few general theories about the reasons, and I think I have some unreasonable uses, even if something goes wrong.
However, the initial reason is that the cost is reduced in order to provide the drive cheaply, resulting in a lack of body durability. As a result, even a small shock hides the possibility of head collapse to a large extent. This in turn leads to damage to the inserted disc (I am trying to unplug and plug the disc I brought together).
More tragedies.
Then I received a working swap drive when I inserted the disk in my hand. There, I knew for the first time that the disk was damaged. The essays, photos, sound effects, graphics, presentations, photo data and MP3 I saved were corrupted.
Fortunately, although the delivery date was not missed because of the lost data, there was a considerable delay in the PC lab.
Time has passed.
I later learned that Iomega was sued collectively in 1998. When I started working at the university in 2000, USB flash drives and CD-R were on the rise, and other 100MB disks had been used up. In 2003, the zip drive ended production, and now Iowa exists as LenovoEMC and manufactures external recording media as a joint venture.
Perhaps, now looking back will laugh at the content of the work, all the memories of my student days have been lost to me, because of this reason IHomega and zip drive hate. Forever, I'm afraid.
By the way, as a translator, when I was a student studying graphic design, I took great care of the zip drives used by MAC/WIN dual knives and carried them everywhere. By the way, the PC built-in driver is also installed on the homemade PC, which benefits from a lot of benefits, which is a good memory.
Although he is sleeping in the closet, he should still be on active duty. According to his own experience, reporter Rishevsky is very pitiful. I thank the god of numbers for the absence of "death clicks".
Source: Wikipedia, INDIANA UNIVERSITY,Museum of Obsolete Media
