Jaz drive

The Jaz drive[1][2] is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002.

SCSIs were standard in Apple Macintosh computers but were rare in the much larger market of end-user PCs, usually requiring an extra interface card to be bought and installed.

Additionally, the metal sliding door was capable of wearing the plastic, resulting in debris and head crashes.

The plastic tabs attached to the bottom of a Jaz cartridge could become stripped or broken, rendering the inserted disk physically incapable of spinning up to operating speed.

The REV's design is derived partly from the IBM 2310's use of a "voice coil actuator (VCA) motor to improve the reliability and reduce the seek time of an HDD's read–write heads"[8] in a removable media cartridge.