ferdy wrote:
>the infamous Click of Death on a Zip drive and a totally failed jaz drive.


   Yes...I've had a couple of bad Zip disks and drive (replaced free by
Iomega) and it is aggravating. But consider the numbers. If there is a 2
percent failure rate out of the 20 million Iomega drives sold, that's
400,000 bad drives and unhappy customers. Two percent doesn't sound too
bad unless you're the one with the defective product. The old rate of
DOA (dead on arrival) component parts on a factory computer used to be
above 10% for an industry average (the last time I saw these figures
were back in 1995 so things have changed). Packard Bell had the worse
DOA average in that survey BTW...

   Speaking of bad media disks...has anybody ever had a worse failure
rate with 3.5 floppies than the cheapo black Imation floppies? I had 35
out of a 100 pack fail immediately and I have never bought another one.


Later,


Russell Smith
Region 14 ESC Abilene, Texas
http://camalott.com/~rssmith
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