[Sussex] Are Zip drives still available?

[John Crowhurst]

On Fri, October 20, 2006 00:50, Fay Zee wrote:
> On 19/10/06, John Crowhurst <fyremoon at fyremoon.net> wrote:
>> Have you tried Froogle?
> I've never used it!

Its a nice feature of google's search engine.

>> Iomega stopped selling
>> the zip drives (probably after the loss of their monopoly and click of
>> death)
> I didn't know the story on the "click of death", so have just now read up
> on it.

Its very disturbing to find your ZIP disks no longer read in the drive.
I've had a couple with click of death.

> So I guess backup is a choice between rewritable DVDs or an external hard
> drive.

Perhaps a firewire solution? A supported card (like the AFW4300 at around
£26), external caddy (from £24) and standard 250GB IDE drive (around £50)
would give you an external drive at sustained speed of 400Mbps.

Linux Mafia have a nice list of backup solutions, here:
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/backup/00index.txt

--
John