Oh, and the link in the title bar.
Not sure what happened on the /. side.

Also, the MiniDisc used a form of "lossy" data transfer. Think of it like the "anti-skip" feature of portable CD players.

Until Hi-MD, MiniDisc really wasn't designed for nor intended for data storage; it had always been a lossy audio format, both in compression and in data integrity.

I bought a double-sided, 80-track 5.25" floppy drive for my TRS-80 Color Computer. It had 720 KB of storage and was wicked fast and even regular 5.25" floppies accepted the 80-track format, which I thought was rather weird but OK.

Me, too!

How did you shred them? I have 1.4 GB of disks to dispose of.

Iomega used to sell bespoke SCSI cards with their SCSI Zip drives. They were just SCSI enough to run a Zip drive.

I must be an anomaly. All of my five Zip 100 drives never got the "Click of Death."

Huh, I thought the "Click of Death" only applied to Zip 100 drives.

Can confirm. I made sure my motherboards and, sometimes, parallel port cards, were EPP, when I relied on Zip drives.
The EPP parallel ports were just as fast as 8-bit SCSI back then, and far less expensive.

Don't forget the Floptical. I still have them in my Amiga computers.
They were a Godsend in the early 1990s.

Fun fact: Seiko Epson was the manufacturer of Zip drives.

Umm, OK, why wouldn't you always do that?

The "Click of Death" affected merely 0.5% of all drives, but Iomega sold so many of them that it became a crisis.

I bought disks in packs of 5 and 10. It was a huge bargain back then.

In recent years I copied off my Zip drives to online storage.

The parallel port drive I used for a decade couldn't work with modern operating systems and I ran out of computers with parallel ports.
Same with the my newer SCSI Zip drive--no drivers for modern operating systems for the weird, bespoke SCSI card which was little more than a glorified (and crippled) scanner card.
Then the USB drive I got off eBay was DOA. That royally pissed me off.

I finally got it all working with an IDE (ATAPI) drive pulled from an old Macintosh.

I still don't want to throw away my old parallel and SCSI drives. They look cool even though they cannot possibly work anymore without rebuying seriously old tech.

I still type "sync;sync" before "poweroff" or "reboot" or "halt."

And I've been doing that for thirty-seven years.

I put my AOL client software on a Zip drive to save minutely charges.

I would take my Zip drive to work, who had broadband in the early 1990s, and visit as many AOL keywords as I could so that my home computer (with a telephone modem) wouldn't incur charges while I waited for those assets to download to the AOL library cache.

Stuffing the AOL library cache was a subtle form of downloading back then if you knew what you were doing.