Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically. The phrase "click of death" originated to describe a failure mode of Zip drives sold by Iomega, appearing in print as early as January 30, 1998.
Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically. The phrase "click of death" originated to describe a failure mode of Zip drives sold by Iomega, appearing in print as early as January 30, 1998.
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