Agreed. Flash storage changed the entire game. I worked at a digital camera repair place in the early 2000s, and I remember looking at the CF cards and the other occasional outlyers that came in, thinking "This is awesome. All this space on a tiny disk. This is gonna be the future."
Now we have 2TB of storage on an disk about the size of a few grains of rice. Sick shit.
Also, I've heard of the click of death. Perhaps it's because my systems all used internal drives that I never had issues. From what I have read, it's a bigger issue with the externals. To be fair, external everything is garbage. My first 2 cdr gigs were external. Slow, prone to fail on burn, had to be plugged in directly to the system and not a USB hub, etc.
Early external burners were garbage, but I think that was because of the USB drivers at the time.
I hated zip disks. I was the only one that could make them work with WinNT...so I got all those tickets.
I didn't even think about the OS being a factor. I used them on pre-X Mac, and later Linux. Both were plug and play with no issues.
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