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Summary: The Iomega drive engineers need a dope-slap
Review: My Zip 100 suffered from the "Click of Death" and I lost about five disks and the whole drive before I learned on the Internet about this well-known problem. I gave Iomega my email address when I registered my drive but they didn't tell me that using their well-documented defective drives ruins the disk with loss of all data. But, I had to get my data off, so I bought a Zip 250 and today I had the Click of Death again with total loss of data and a ruined expensive disk. Arrggh! Needless to say, I would NEVER recommend a Zip drive and I am planning on forever boycotting Iomega. And, if you happen to run into a Zip drive engineer who designed this turkey, please give him or her a (gentle) dope slap for me. Who at Iomega thought this piece of engineering garbage was suitable for valuable data? (If you are tempted to by a Zip, anyway, search for "Click of Death" ...before buying a Zip drive. I wonder how many countless gigabytes of data have been lost?)
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Summary: Wrong Choice: Parallel Port External Drive
Review: The Iomega zip drive is probably the most reliable and useful device I have ever bought for my PC. It never ever fails, the software is superb, and the access speed is fast enough to run even complex multimedia like MP3s and videos from it without a glitch. I would really recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: The Iomega zip drive is probably the most reliable and useful device I have ever bought for my PC. It never ever fails, the software is superb, and the access speed is fast enough to run even complex multimedia like MP3s and videos from it without a glitch. I would really recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: easy to use at first....but I would only give it 1 1/2 stars
Review: This is extremely easy to install and use. Like it so far! Now, a few months later, I need to update this... Everytime that I use this, it freezes up my computer and I need to reboot. It's not worth the time and energy!
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Summary: Good Product
Review: This product is fast and reliable for anything you need to save. It stores a ton of things and not to mention looks really nice on your desk.
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Summary: Wrong Choice: Parallel Port External Drive
Review: Troubleshooting tips in the User's Manual are a warning for what you can expect. Examples: "Computer hangs on reboot or does not operate correctly" and "Zip drive transfer speed seems slow". Forget tech (phone) support unless you enjoy long wait times. Email tech support turnaround response time within a day or two is usually a general answer to a specific question. If you have a choice, don't waste your money on this parallel device -- instead buy the USB version.
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Summary: Good for backup
Review: What is good about this zip drive is that it is very easy to install, and requires basically no configuration, just plug in, and install the software. The one thing I don't like about it is it sometimes freezes up your computer while you are backing up files. I mean you don't have to restart the computer or anything, you just can't do anything else for a couple minutes. Sometimes that can be a pain. All in all though, its still a good product.
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Summary: Terrible in every way.
Review: Why Zip disks were ever popular, I will never know. They are one of the most unreliable, and most expensive forms of data storage I have ever seen... except for the Jaz drive, which happens to be made by the same company. If you want to store a lot of data for the least amount of money, then go out and buy a CD writer, especially if your media is going to be well traveled! I work for a print company in the electronic pre-press department, and I also have a small web design business, and I cannot tell you how many times I have gotten a zip disk that has gone bad while it was being delivered to me. I have never had a problem with CDs corrupting, sure I have had some CDs that don't work, but that happened during the writing, not because of the way it was stored, or shipped. Save me, you, and everyone else a huge headache by switching to CD-Rs.
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Summary: Terrible in every way.
Review: Why Zip disks were ever popular, I will never know. They are one of the most unreliable, and most expensive forms of data storage I have ever seen... except for the Jaz drive, which happens to be made by the same company. If you want to store a lot of data for the least amount of money, then go out and buy a CD writer, especially if your media is going to be well traveled! I work for a print company in the electronic pre-press department, and I also have a small web design business, and I cannot tell you how many times I have gotten a zip disk that has gone bad while it was being delivered to me. I have never had a problem with CDs corrupting, sure I have had some CDs that don't work, but that happened during the writing, not because of the way it was stored, or shipped. Save me, you, and everyone else a huge headache by switching to CD-Rs.
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