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Summary: Perfect for storing photos, files & more
Review: Although we have a CD-RW drive on our desktop, we purchased this for our laptop and have found it to be very useful and handy to have. Not only is it easy to set up and use, but it's small and portable and takes up very little space. It's great for storing digital photos, documents and other files that you want to keep around (in case of a computer crash, etc.) and it's simple to unhook and rehook to another computer to transfer files quickly and easily. So far we have no complaints, just praise.
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Summary: Not Dependeble
Review: I have owned this item for a little less than a year and since I have owned it I have been having problems. The first thing is I used the 250mb disk to back up pictures that I used for photo editing and everytime I load the disk to retreive the pictures it freezes up. My computer doesn't have that problem with any other drive. When using the zip drive I always run into problems when transferring files from zip->hard drive and hard drive->zip. I have an older model at the office (100 mb) and is not USB connected and is very dependable. No freezing, no reboots! It is a little more bulkier but does the job way better than this model.
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Summary: why bother?
Review: USB "keychain drives" can store 64 or 128 MB for much less money, and they're quicker and more reliable (no moving parts) to boot. If you have more data to store, use a CD/RW drive, they're both cheaper, bigger, and more portable.The Iomega zip drive is stuck - on the bottom, use a keychain drive. on the top, use a CD/RW drive.
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Summary: Zip 250 USB-powered - Compact and fast
Review: This drive was originally bought as a replacement for a stolen one. In comparison to the externally-powered comparable Zip-250 USB, this drive is smaller and lighter - not even counting the power brick. There is a tradeoff, though - I have some old 100-MB Zip disks, and Iomega admits this drive is much slower than spec. when handiling that format. I haven't noticed a problem, but I only used them for archival purposes.
Second, of course - if you want usb power and easy portability, then you may be looking at powering it off a laptop. If used as a secondary or portable hard-drive, it will add considerable drain to battery load. When working using it as the primary drive for Power Point presentations, I found it comparable to watching DVD movies (about 1/2 normal battery run time).
Its a good, fast, drive, but if power is a problem, then use it primarily for archival purposes - transferring your active work to/from your laptop's hard drive.
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Summary: A great drive but disks are quite expensive
Review: I love this drive, very easy to install (windows auto detects and installs quite nicely). Being USB akes it very easy to travel with and can be used anywhere and on any computer with a USB port. Now the downside....
The disks are quite expensive (About 10x more than a CDRW for way less storage). If you are hoping to use the drive to restore systems files from at startup... forget it, you will need the serial port version of the Zip drive to do that. This is an excellent solution for someone who needs to share files between multiple computers. For pure backup of data however, A CDRW is a more cost effective solution. ...
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Summary: Neat, compact and easy to set up
Review: This zip drive is really slim and draws power from the USB CABLE - which is very cool for my laptop. Installation is a piece of cake - although the backup software by IOMEGA is a 30 day trial only !! One very neat future - software actually allows you disconnect the drive from the USB port on the computer every time you disconnect - re-connecting simply requires plug in. This way - you dont block a USB port on your machine. Accepts both 100MB and 250 MB disks - thank god !
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Summary: Best Buy
Review: Since I bought the Zip 250 USB powered drive, I yet to be disappointed. I generally use it at home on my PC, but when I'm on the go it goes with me. It works like a dream with my laptop and is easy to carry in my bag. With it's small size and light weight, I can put it on it's side and easily slip it in a slender space out of the way. It's a must have.
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Summary: Piece of Junk
Review: This piece of equipment didn't work well with my system, a Windows (ME) PC with Athlon processor. I hoped to use it to transfer files between computers at home and work. It didn't handle 100 Meg Zip disks very well, locking up the system on occasion. I returned it and replaced it with a standard Zip drive, which works fine. Not recommended.
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Summary: Too Slow reading 100Mb disks!!
Review: I returnd my zip250, it takes too long to read 100mb disks, about 5 times slower (they told me it's slower becouse the 250 write/read head is smaller?).. I also tried reading a 100mb disk in an internal ATAPI zip 250 and it crawls..but it reads 250mb disks much faster.
so dissapointing!!
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Summary: nice
Review: I spent several days trying to decide if i should buy an
external CDR/W or USB Zip for fast file sharing between
sevral desktops & laptops.. Eventhough Zip disks are very
expensive (ridiculously) as compared to CD-R and CDrws, zip drives are REALLY plug & play.. we have Win2K- desktops at work
and I didn't even need to install the drivers i just plug it in without rebooting!! wow..
By the way I think 100 MB USB is more than enough for everyday purposes, except if you deal with lots o graphics..but then u better get something faster like a FIrewire or USB 2.0 swappable HD/ CDrw..
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