I remember the “click of death”
Click of death is why I never bought one. Any drive that randomly dies and kills the disk it’s working on it’s a safe system to store files on.
You would want to retreive a copy of something. You put a zip disk in the zip drive and click, click, click - the click of death - the disk damaged itself and you could not get the files off the disk. I had backup copies of anything really important. At the time the Zip disk was a miracle when compared against the floppy disk. Zip disks were everywhere for 10 or 12 years and the they disappeared almost overnight.