click death

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:53 am

so I happened upon a k2vx on the cheap, and plan on getting a scsi zip drive

question:

does the click death still exist?

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:13 am

Yes, but there are scsi flash options now so you don't have to deal with zip drives.

Post by **Ashe37** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:15 am

yeah, get one of the SCSI flash drives, dont bother with the zip drives.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:30 am

score!

thanks for the heads up

Post by **rhino** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:43 pm

Joey wrote:
question:

does the click death still exist?

picked up a K2500. Please enlighten me about "click death". Thanks.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:13 pm

Zip and jazz drives are prone to a random and inevitable death that causes you to lose all of your data. It's called click death because when you insert a disk it will make a terrible clicking noise before it deletes your data.

Post by **rhino** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:33 pm

thanks. I bought an Akai S1100 sampler some time back. came with four Zip drives. Was thinking about using them on the Kurz, but I'll heed your warning; flash memory it will be!

Post by **tallowwaters** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:03 pm

Conversely, I used a zip drive (refurbished Iomega 100) for a few years with 0 issues.

Post by **space6oy** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:52 pm

click death would be a pretty cool band/album name...

Post by **Ashe37** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:46 am

tallowwaters wrote:Conversely, I used a zip drive (refurbished Iomega 100) for a few years with 0 issues.

I used a SCSI Zip (100, when 100 was the only model) on my Amiga for 2 1/2 years with no problems. The problem now is, all the drives are old, and so are the cartridges. I have a Jaz drive right now that I'm not using, i actually got it used, for the USB -> SCSI interface that came with it.

Mr Knesh · Post by **Mr Knesh** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:02 am

I used a Boss Br-8 for about 6 years to record with. All in all I had collected like, 30 100mb zip disks and I was exchanging information in between disks all the time. I only ever had a problem with one of them.

portland · Post by **portland** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:11 am

The other problem with Zip Drives is that the disks often just don't work. I've even bought new ones that didn't work out of the box.

Post by **Solderman** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:49 pm

I need to see if the Zip cartridges I used from 2000-2003 still work, but my Jaz drive story is even worse. I had a Jaz drive around '97-98. One day when I ejected the Jaz cartridge, a small piece of metal came out with it. It never spun up cartridges again. Before that, I had already gone through 2 of them, the others just failing to read data at all after a few hours' use. Iomega deserves all the ridiculde and suffering they have been given.

implant · Post by **implant** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 6:43 pm

why didn't i think of this before? oh yeah, i went primarily software.
my k2500 is in storage and i was dreading using the damn jaz drive again. glad this thread showed up.
though like tallowwaters my jaz drives did infact work just fine for years but the fear remains!!!!!

Tchammosaur · Post by **Tchammosaur** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:37 pm

space6oy wrote:click death would be a pretty cool band/album name...

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