It is most important in backup process to modern fast drives.
It has been used extensively in read heads of modern hard drives.
Reliability and low noise are nice too, but modern hard drives are fairly quiet all around.
But in modern drives, the flying height is normally about 3 nanometers.
This is not the case with modern hard drives:
With modern drive by wire fuel controls, problems are believed to occur exclusively while the vehicle is under way.
It's been specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting time.
For example, most modern hard drives have commands that provide information about some permanent error conditions.
But the Zip drive is not that much slower than a modern hard drive.
Most modern drives ship with the vendor-defined value of 0x00 in the acoustic management setting.