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

To: Linda Pearson who wrote (56911)	6/29/1998 9:43:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Well five more bad Zip disks for me folks. That is 8 in the last month or so. I use to have 25 disks. One was destroyed from a bad internal Zip drive (Click of death) the others were bad Fat files that could not be repaired. The strange thing is most of these disks were hardly used. According to Iomega's tech guy, if you Zip drive clicks as soon as a disk is inserted that is the Click of Death. If it clicks when you try to access data on the disk after it was inserted, then that is a bad fat table. I wish Iomega would get some QC here. Eight bad disks, and one bad drive (COD) in the month and a half. Some advise......use two Zip disks if you store data you don't want to loose. If your Zip drive starts clicking as soon as you insert a disk into it, DO NOT PUT ANOTHER DISK WITH DATA IN IT. I use to love my Zip's, but now I just use them. I use doubles for everything. In my opinion critical data should be stored on a tape drive, I feel that is the safest media. CDR is safe as long as you handle them with care. If you use a ball point pen to write on them you are asking for problems. You know that gold layer on a CDR disk? Well it comes off very easily. Don't use a sticky label on a CDR disk and try to remove it, you may end up taking of the gold reflective layer thus destroying the disk. Your CDR disk will not stand up like a plain old CD-ROM disk. So handle with care. This has been my experience. P.S. I have never owned any stock, just passing along some info.