click death
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click death
so I happened upon a k2vx on the cheap, and plan on getting a scsi zip drive
question:
does the click death still exist?
question:
does the click death still exist?
No one cares, no one sympathizes,
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Re: click death
Yes, but there are scsi flash options now so you don't have to deal with zip drives.
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Re: click death
yeah, get one of the SCSI flash drives, dont bother with the zip drives.
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Re: click death
score!
thanks for the heads up
thanks for the heads up
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Re: click death
picked up a K2500. Please enlighten me about "click death". Thanks.Joey wrote:
question:
does the click death still exist?
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Re: click death
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.
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Re: click death
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!
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Re: click death
Conversely, I used a zip drive (refurbished Iomega 100) for a few years with 0 issues.
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Re: click death
click death would be a pretty cool band/album name...
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Re: click death
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.tallowwaters wrote:Conversely, I used a zip drive (refurbished Iomega 100) for a few years with 0 issues.
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Re: click death
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.
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Re: click death
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.
Re: click death
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.
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Re: click death
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!!!!!
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!!!!!
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Re: click death
I agreespace6oy wrote:click death would be a pretty cool band/album name...