Comment Re:amazing for its time (Score 1) 156
My company sold appliances that used zipdrives as part of the update process. Trust me it was significantly higher than 0.5% of drives. It would eventually happen to any drive that was used on a regular basis. Or one that sat in a box unused long enough, Or one that was used on a semiregular basis. That is to say, it happened to any drive, regardless of how it was treated. We're just lucky that we shipped these with hardrives that were surprisingly much much less reliable. So people were too busy complaining about the hard drive failures to complain about the zip drive issues. But if you asked, they'd be like oh yeah the zip drive failed too.