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LGR Oddware - Iomega Clik! Tiny 40MB Disk Drive (Patreon)

Published:
2018-03-22 02:06:22
Edited:
2018-03-23 15:51:19
Imported:
2021-03

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I really like this little thing, even though it was more or less a complete flop on the market. Tiny disks, yay!

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LGR Oddware - Iomega Clik! Tiny 40MB Disk Drive

During the heydey of the ZIP drive, Iomega released the Clik! A storage alternative to flash memory cards that used 2" magnetic floppy diskette cartridges readable inside a PCMCIA card. ● Consider supporting LGR on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews ● Social links: https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Music used in order of appearance: The Years We Had, Relaxation Station, Grey Mornings 2, Middle of Nowhere 1, Connection http://www.epidemicsound.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4OLSoO6Fs

Comments

Anonymous

Heck yeah! Been waiting for someone to cover the Clik for a while.

Bastien Nocera

Thanks for the precision of the millimetre dimensions, us metric folks appreciate the attention to detail.

Ai dude

I think I used to own a MP3 player using that disk. It's from Iomega if I recall correctly.

Anonymous

It's like looking at a PSP UMD. Pretty cool little Disk Drive.

Anonymous

That failing card reader sounds like someone trying to start their car. A car whose engine is completely rusted. And good grief, I had forgotten how many methods you could store your media in the late 90s. D8

Anonymous

Great video, as always. Loved it. Also, RIP PC Card Drive. You tried.

blahmoomoo

Wow, the portable drive is a weirdly engineered product. Like, why would you put the power barrel jack right next to the parallel port where it can easily get in the way? What's the point of a portable bag for the drive if you can't take the battery or the memory card transfer thingy with you? 9:56 - You misspoke, saying it goes from Clik Disk to memory card, but the opposite is happening.

Anonymous

I'd heard of Clik disks, but I didn't know what they looked like. Now I'm sad the format didn't take off, if only because I like the design so much.

Pablo Rodriguez

That is one very satisfying click. The product's name is well chosen.

evistre

Neeeat.

LazyGameReviews
>>10978387

For real though, it's a shame they didn't come out closer to when they were first teased in '97

Kris Asick

PCMCIA card booting sounds are fun. :3

Tim Wilcox

Great video. this is the kind of thing i would have bought in the day. Never saw this advertised in the UK though.

Anonymous

Somebody should do a remix involving the drive death noise.

BastetFurry

Got one back in 2006 at the Hobbytronic in Dortmund, paid like 5€ or somewhere around that for it and got it out of curiosity. I mean, it was obsolete even back then and it showed when the same booth sells you 128 MB SD-Cards that have USB on their other side for 3€. :D

Anonymous

Clint, did you upgrade the lights or camera? The video looks clearer/cleaner. Also, I'm surprised I didn't buy into this tech at the time: cool yet quickly obsolete... just my style.

Nicholas Wilson

Oh wow! My girlfriend and me both used PC Card Click!/Pocket Zip drives to both backup and transfer data from our Win CE Handheld PC’s to our laptops until we replaced them with SD cards and readers. We bought ours from PC World here in the UK after they turned up on the reduced to clear table for £100 a peace new, with a disk. Not only did they serve us well but we still have them, they still work and so do ALL of our original disks! :D (as someone who knows what a PC Card Click!/Pocket Zip drive should sound like yours is very very dead sadly)

Anonymous

FYI, I think you might have said things backwards at 9:58. You said one way "from Clik Disk to Memory Card" - isn't it from the memory card to the Clik?

Anonymous

Great video. I had planned to cover this myself but at this point it would probably have been 2 years from now. I never owned one of these when they were on the market, but I do remember seeing them. However, I didn't see any particular need since I already had a ZIP drive and I didn't have any portable devices, or even KNOW of any portable devices that used the format.

Brad Sparks

I had the HipZip and it was an awful MP3 player compared to the emerging market is thumbstick MP3 players.

LazyGameReviews
>>10982791

I did a while back, yep! Constantly adjusting things to improve it though, glad it's noticeable :)

LazyGameReviews
>>10984925

Thank you! It really is one of the biggest "solutions in search of a problem" from the time period.

LazyGameReviews
>>10983134

Heh, yeah it was almost silent with just a faint whirring before the death noises began. Really is a pleasant device to use when it's working!

LazyGameReviews
>>10980912

They are. Anytime an old computer makes a simple, shrill BEEP it makes me feel like I'm doing real work.

LazyGameReviews
>>10981271

Heh, yeah it was struggling enough in its home country of the US that I imagine overseas sales weren't a huge priority.

Anonymous

I also think these weird IOMega things are neat! I'm a fan of weird late 90's things that had potential and died.

LazyGameReviews
>>10983134

Ah that's okay, it wouldn't arrive in time to update this video since it goes public tomorrow. I'm sure I'll run across another eventually :)

Anonymous

Doesn't it trigger mixed feelings when something goes wrong in one of your videos, like with this drive dying? Because although it's incredibly sad that you lost a piece of your collection (and us techie geeks around the world lost a piece of history), you narrate it with such calm and naturality that's almost comforting... I can't help but imagine myself going bananas had I been in your place

Anonymous

My co-worker was the lead QA engineer on the project. He has a ton of them in his garage as well as the MP3 players and Iomega Clik cameras. He has some interesting Iomega stories for sure. The Clik was so bad that they literally couldn't give the drives away.

Mat Cooper

I remember when these came out in the UK. Like most of my uni mates we all had Zip Drives and disks for course work and the like. The general consensus at the time was... 40mb? Why bother! All the uni computers had adopted the Zip drives and this just seemed oddly placed in the market even to the 19/20 year old me... Still neat though!

Carey Brown

I had one of these, and I too bought mine as a clearance item at Staples. They did have a problem with sharing slots.

Anonymous

I can't believe I forgot this existed! Love these videos

LazyGameReviews
>>11003981

Interesting! Wish it said something about that in the guides mine came with. Although, that seems like a nasty design flaw either way.

Carey Brown
>>11003981

Yeah, the only reason I even knew about it was I had a firewire card as well. If I had both in my Compaq Armada laptop, the Clik! drive wouldn't actually spin the disk at all. I compared the firewire card with the 3Com card I had and realized that the firewire card was thicker and pressed against the Clik! drive.

Anonymous

I had one but I had 80mb clik disks from Fujitsu. They used a special software to add support.

ZULEYKA GAMES

Wow, it is interesting! I guess it is a useful thing, worth to use