A Reliability Solution for ZIP Drives...

Remember ZIP drives?  Those 100Mb Floppies that were the rage for a few years?  Remember the click of death?

For those who don't, both the drives and the disks that went into them were notoriously flimsy, and they when they failed, it usually let you know by clicking once a second, on and on forever...  the drive was dead, your data was gone, your disk was killed.  Well, when you've got bored web devs who are always worried about the survivability of their ZIP data, what happens?

This happens...

RAID Level 1, my friends, on a pair of ZIP drives.  So, now, when you get the click of death, you can replace the disk (and maybe the drive if it co-failed) and get your data back!  Thank god they invented USB Flash Drives a few years later...

{submitted by El}