>Anyway, if you want something removable, use a Zipdrive. They're far more reliable.
In addition to the click of death problem, any removable disk media that has the ability of destroying the drive, resulting in the destroyed drive making more of these destroyer disks doesn't rate very high in my book.
And still the Zipdrive outperforms the SQ5110 drive when it comes to reliability. I had three SQ5110 drives in three different computers with a grand total of 10 disks and all of them failed in a period of about two or three months while only being used every now and then. This shows me very clearly these drives, whether it be because of their age or because of something else, are completely unreliable nowadays. The zipdisk, even when I take the Click-of-Death into account is much more reliable. I have seen dozens of zipdrive being used daily over the last couple of years with about 200 (maybe more) disks being in use. None of them have failed. Ever.
Removable drives have a higher chance of getting physically damaged compared to a non-removable harddrive because they are carried around, even if it is only within one room. And if I compare the (old) SQ5110 to the newer and more compact Zipdrive, the Zipdrive wins easily.
Ah well, if the guy wants to use the drive, so be it. With luck, it keeps on spinning for years to come... :-)
