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Summary: Great item well worth the money
Review: Great value for the money and always needed for that extra storage.
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Summary: Great for the at home PC user
Review: I bought a zip disc drive for my PC a few months back to save my various documents and pictures from the net, and it has worked out great so far. So long as you're not storing VAST amounts of info, this is all you need.
In response to a previous reviewer's question: "Why even use a zip disc when you can put it on a CD?", my answer is "durability". Sure, CDs are cheaper and hold more info, but they also break and scratch more easily, and you have to watch where you leave your big, oily fingerprints.
I can leave a zip disc out on my desk and not worry about it, even if I lose track of it and find it buried under a pile of papers and junk a week later.
The ONLY problem I've had with the zip discs is in opening saved text documents directly from the zip disc. This has--on occasion--caused my computer to seize up, but now I get around that problem by transfering the saved file to my computer (a copy is still on the disc) and opening it from there.
All around, a great product.
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Summary: Better than dealing with 3 1/2 x 5 floppy disks
Review: I can't begin to tell you how many 3 1/2 x 5 floppy disks I have gone through. Too many times where I had a big project and I couldn't save it on one disk. My high school Spanish 4 final exam project was on 5 small floppy disks!! 5! I started using a zip drive and it was so much easier. As well as I don't have to worry about it not fitting because I have 250MB to work with instead of 1.44MB.I did get a new computer and had a CD-RW drive installed on it. That was going to be my new way out but Fitchburg State College computers only have CD-ROMs so that was no help. I'm glad I still have my zip drive since now I use it more than ever. A word of advice if you are buying a new zip drive. Get a USB capable zip drive. Stay away from the parallel port model. That one was a piece of junk. If you want to save wire space Iomega made a USB-powered model as well.
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Summary: I wouldn't recommend Iomega Zip Drive
Review: I have used Iomega Zip since the early days of parallel Zip 100. As an IT Professional, I need my portable storage to be fast, convenient and 100% reliable. Unfortunately, the USB Zip 250 and 750 drives I possess are none of these things! The disks corrupt often and catastrophically - it is really frustrating, as the potential flexibility and convenience of this format is great. Go the CD-R or CD-RW route, or even better, use something solid-state, but don't buy this product.
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Summary: Why?
Review: I own an Iomega Zip 250 drive, and I used it... for about a week. I thought it would be great to back-up web sites, and to transfer files between my computers at home, but then I just found it easier to spend the money on a 4 port networking hub and a good CD writer. Zip drives are nowhere near as dependable as a CD-R or RW, and CDs cost less money, plus Cds hold more information. I work at a printing company, and do a lot of freelance web work, so I get a lot of different types of media, and I have to say that if everyone just bought a CD writer, it would make life a lot easier.
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Summary: Better and faster than floppies, but recommend USB Drives
Review: I've use zip disks for about a year now. Have to admit that at least i haven't had to worry about scratching them up like CDs but they're not all that dependable when transferring from computer to computer. The only reason i really used them was because I had to for my multimedia class in college. They only equipt a few of their computers with CD Burners and most have Zip Drives. Out of the 5 zip disks i used, 2 of them had problems which have caused me to spend extra time redoing corrupt files for class. While they work pretty well if u want to be able to carry some files around with you in your pocket or just toss it in your backpack, i dont recommend using zips to transfer your work between many computers such as for computer labs. USB ThumbDrives for me. They are solid state, fast, and dont corrupt as easily if at all.
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Summary: Better and faster than floppies, but recommend USB Drives
Review: I've use zip disks for about a year now. Have to admit that at least i haven't had to worry about scratching them up like CDs but they're not all that dependable when transferring from computer to computer. The only reason i really used them was because I had to for my multimedia class in college. They only equipt a few of their computers with CD Burners and most have Zip Drives. Out of the 5 zip disks i used, 2 of them had problems which have caused me to spend extra time redoing corrupt files for class. While they work pretty well if u want to be able to carry some files around with you in your pocket or just toss it in your backpack, i dont recommend using zips to transfer your work between many computers such as for computer labs. USB ThumbDrives for me. They are solid state, fast, and dont corrupt as easily if at all.
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Summary: Great stuff!
Review: Iomega disks have to be the worst form of storage media ever created. They are easily corruptable. I can't tell you the number of disks I've had to throw away because they have died on me. They've destroyed projects that I've saved on them. Projects that were unretrievable because all of a sudden the disk cannot be read by the computer or even worse freezes the computer. On top of all this, Iomega disks are way too expensive for being such a bad product. I even had to ask an Iomega technician what I was doing wrong. After going over possible scenerios of what I've might of done, we both concluded it wasn't me but indeed there was something wrong with the disks. My advice is to stay away from Iomega disks and all other Iomega products and go with CD-RW disks of any brand. They store more info, are much cheaper and are much more reliable.
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Summary: Iomega disks, what a joke...
Review: Iomega disks have to be the worst form of storage media ever created. They are easily corruptable. I can't tell you the number of disks I've had to throw away because they have died on me. They've destroyed projects that I've saved on them. Projects that were unretrievable because all of a sudden the disk cannot be read by the computer or even worse freezes the computer. On top of all this, Iomega disks are way too expensive for being such a bad product. I even had to ask an Iomega technician what I was doing wrong. After going over possible scenerios of what I've might of done, we both concluded it wasn't me but indeed there was something wrong with the disks. My advice is to stay away from Iomega disks and all other Iomega products and go with CD-RW disks of any brand. They store more info, are much cheaper and are much more reliable.
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Summary: Corruptions? That's weird.
Review: Really weird. I bought a USB 250MB disk drive kit because the school computers have zip drives. I've been using the same two 250 MB disks for about 2 years now, and they've worked fine. I used it to transfer files between school (WinXP) and my home computer (Linux).
I think CDS are great for backups, but not for file transfers. Even CDRWs aren't good for that since you have to copy all the files to your PC, blank the disk, and write the files back to update the disk. Sure we have those UDF formatted CDRWs that work like any other storage device, but THAT is unrealiable, and WinXP doesn't even support it by default.
Memory sticks, hmm, they are compact, but they use EEPROM, which means that you are limited in the number of times a memory location can be erased. CDRWs suffer from a similar erase limit, but I've had the same CDRWs for many years, and they still work.
I think the zip 250 disks are great, though I wish they were a bit cheaper.
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