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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
The community college near me had zip drives on the library computers. I bought one primarily so I could download Netscape there and bring it home because doing it that way was faster than using our dialup connection.
That’s more or less how certain public clouds manage migrations in some cases.
I’ve watched a company load up 2PB of data into a tape library, have them stack it full of bubblewrap, then roll it onto the back of a truck with the tires deflated for a softer ride, then driven across town to a new datacentre at 3am on a Sunday.
Effective data rate: 1PB per hour.
click - your data is lost
I liked them anyways. The IDE drives were fast and cheap, CD-R was still too expensive.
I still remember getting my first TDK burner, and going through mad numbers of CD-Rs due to failed writes. Those will always be the days.
Remember MiniDisc? The one and only true storage medium! Hail MiniDisc!
It could’ve been a great computer storage medium, but it took far too long to be sold as such. By the time minidisc was being marketed as floppy/zip replacement, cd-Rs were a thing.
But minidiscs were so much cooler. They came in neon colours and you felt like a super hacker man when you clunked them into a player and used them for storing data rather than music.
Mine was password protected and had Bulma’s boobs and incredibly confusing feelings stored on it
Omg I’ve heard USB sticks be called “zip drives” before. I had no idea they were something entirely their own!
I’m pretty sure my uncle started that haha. He had a Zip drive and just couldn’t let the name go when we moved everything over to usb sticks.
For real though, he’s the only person I know who calls usb sticks “Zip drives”. It’s funny to think it carried over with other folks because not many people had those things to start with.
Somewhere out there is a Zip disk full of porn I collected as a teenager.