Magnetic media in general is not a good choice for reliability and long-term data storage. However, the popular Zip and Jaz products from Iomega have had some problems on top of this. If you are considering buying an Iomega Zip or Jaz drive instead of an MO drive, you should know that many people have reported reliability problems with these drives. You should investigate this before making a decision.

Iomega have apparently admitted to a 10% failure rate for Jaz drives, and the actual rate may be much higher. See

for some information on this.

Information about the "Zip click of death" syndrome can be found at the Unofficial Iomega Click Death Page:

http://www.thirdeyesp.com/jatin/iomega/ You can find many more web pages about this by using a search engine such as Altavista (http://altavista.digital.com/), to find pages which contain the words: Zip click death

Some time ago Iomega had to recall thousands of faulty Jaz disks because of a manufacturing quality problem.

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