https://marco.org/2007/07/29/you-zip-guys-dont-know-what-pain-really-is-unless
You Zip guys don’t know what pain really is unless you had the SyQuest cartridge drives. Not only were they susceptible to the “click of death”, but they had a failure mode that was like a hardware virus. The drive would break, and from that point on it would break any cartridge placed in it. If you placed a broken cartridge in a healthy drive, it would break the drive.