I've seen people have their Zips zapped by having them stored too close to their computer monitor. Seems to me that's a pretty common place to store media... but I digress. I've never thought of Zip drives or disks as reliable. I've had too many problems. 3 drives died of the "click of death" in one year at work. That's 3 drives out of 3. Iomega replaced them, but it took a lot of screaming to get it done. As for disks, I NEVER put my only copy of something on a Zip disk. I've had too many problems to trust it. Zips are great for transporting files from place to place - because almost everyone has a Zip drive. And that's the only reason I have one. I have a SyQuest EZ135 kicking around that's always been faster and more reliable. Unfortunately there is no longer any support for this drive, and media is getting hard to find. -ScottK (waiting for DVD-RAM)