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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joon Song who wrote (48442)	2/21/1998 4:16:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

It seems that only last week I was viciously attacked for voicing my concern about Zip reliability and since then the reports are coming out of the woodwork. Clicking-related problems result in returns or complaints with less than one percent of current Zip drive users, Iomega said. The key phrase here is Iomega said and what they claim is that less than 1% of current Zip driver users complain or return the product. Count me as part of the "99%" that did mail in a complaint or return the product; but don't count me as one of those who realized going in that these things were inherently unreliable. Again, I use them for temporary transfers and if I have a problem I grab another disk or use another drive. They are useful and I have never disputed that. thirdeyesp.com PC WEEK, Februrary 16, 1998 According to many reports from users, Click Death is a particularly nasty infestation that can ruin your Zip disks. It can spread from disk to disk and even bring your drive to its knees. Click Death happens when an Iomega Zip drive starts emitting a sharp clicking noise when accessing a Zip disk. For Zip drives, that's the death knell. Got valuable data on that Zip disk? Too bad, because most people who encounter this click end up with unreadable disks. Even worse, it appears that after disks have been trashed by Click Death, using them in other drives can destroy those drives as well. Whatever happens inside a stricken Zip disk apparently destroys other pristine Zip drive heads--a vicious circle of destruction. The only solution is to kiss your valuable data goodbye and replace your Zip drive. How does Click Death happen? No one seems to know. Even Iomega couldn't provide any useful information. But there are almost as many theories as there are victims. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you've got valuable backups on Zip, better copy them to something else soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Some seem to think it's a manufacturing defect that affects a small portion of the drives. Others speculate that attempting to back up files without selecting a particular file can cause problems. Whatever the cause, this is not an isolated problem. There are a few Web sites devoted to this problem--the most complete is at www.thirdeyesp.com/jatin/iomega/. Here you'll find enough horror stories about the Iomega Zip drive to make you swear off the format for good. If you've got valuable backups on Zip, better copy them to something else soon.