Zip drives stored enough data that losing it would be really annoying at best and a disaster at worst—but were too small to hold a complete hard drive backup. (Back then, HDs were in the 0.5-1Gb range, Zip disks held only 100Mb. And spare HDs were expensive.)https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1289417105788395521 …
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The best bit is their failure mode was portable. One bad drive could kill lots of disks and drives.
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It really was a masterpiece of fail engineering
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I did a stint on my uni's computer help desk as a student in the 90s and had a few people come in with faulty floppies and Zip disks with their dissertation or thesis on. The relief if we managed to save it was palpable.
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Especially given their reliability.
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