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I had SyQuest 105MB and then later iomega Zip drives. The SyQuest cartridges had a translucent shell and it was a shiny metallic HDD platter in there while. When you put in a platter you got a whole sound of the HDD whir to spin up and then clackity-clack when the heads loaded and started moving around. Always a little tension until the drive mounted.

I think the Zip used more of a brown plastic type of disk. The loading was more of a low chunck-chunck sound.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology




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