Daybreak hard drives (was Re: Collectibles for the future)

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Fri Nov 13 02:33:39 1998

> This works very well provided use is few times a week not daily use
> hours on end. Ditto to saving much life for laptop floppy drives so
> that zip drive make perfect sub and networking is best still.

I use mine for things like a zip rescue disk, a very cool thing norton
utilities now does. With a floppy and this rescue disk you can *boot*
your win95 machine even if the hard disk is munged, then use norton to
fix the problem. When I have really large amounts of data to move about
I burn a cdrom of it.

Except backups. Call me old fashioned, I like to be able to update them and
feel guilty throwing a cd away every time, even though I could buy 7 blank
CDs for the cost of one zip cart.

>
> Clicking Of Death is COD in short. It sounds exactly like the
> "trump" without the click in working ones but do that twice every 1
> second.

That's what happened to the one that croaked. I was annoyed to have to
disembowel my system to extract the drive, but pleased with their support,
especially since I had not registered my drive's warrentee. They checked
the manufacturing date on that serial number and concluded it was still in
warantee (only made a month before I bought it) and replaced it anyway.

We're way off topic here (except these things DO apparently work with
classics like the apple 2 with a SCSI card) but I have to say Iomega did
right by me.

-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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