The Iomega Jaz drive captured the brief moment when removable media seemed ready to become a true hard-disk substitute, offering 1 GB cartridges when floppies and even Zip disks were starting to feel cramped. Launched in late 1995 and sold through 2002, it became a recognizable high-end storage format for backup, large file transfer, and multimedia work, even though cheaper CD burning and other formats soon pushed it aside.

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