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Summary: The Zip 250 on USB is not worth the cost.
Review: This zip drive is built extremely compact. This is great, but the performance is not. Transfering takes more time than an internal Zip 100 drive. I recommend that you save some money and get a Zip 250 Internal drive or spend a little more to get the Iomega Zip 250 USB with FIREWIRE support. I hope this review helps.
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Summary: Fast, lightweight, dependable, noisy.
Review: I was impressed with the ease of installing and using this product right out of the box. The disks seem solid and I've had no problems with the drive. It's very portable and the lack of an external power supply is great.My only complaint is that the drive makes a loud buzzing/whining noise under some circumstances when the computer is booted or shut down. It seems to make this noise when initially checking for a disk when there is no disk in the drive. It's not as loud as a noisy car or even a barking dog, but the high-pitched noise can be heard clearly from three rooms away. I've somewhat learned to ignore it. I would fully recommend this drive to those who need it. I suggest carefully evaluating the storage capacity you need before purchasing the drive, however. If 250MB per disk is enough, this drive is for you. If you plan to backup your hard drive or save multiple large multimedia files, however, the Iomega Peerless might be a better choice (although I haven't used it yet).
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Summary: Just one cable!
Review: I bought this item about a month ago. It is very helpful because some of my files are very big like 10 MB or so. It's kind of my portable Zip drive because I can carry it from my office to home and transfer files easily. The size in the picture might not look that small, but it's not heavy either. And it has just one wire. So, you don't need power supply or AC or any source of electricity. It might not matter much for desktop users, but for laptops users I do recommend this one because not only you can use battery for your laptop but also you don't need to find a plug for your zip drive!
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Summary: Meets my expectations, works with my laptop
Review: Great! Only needed something for backing up Quicken data, etc. and keep personal data off the laptop C drive. I was concerned about the one review that says that the laptop USB supply was not "high power" and it slowed the system, but I didn't have this problem at all. Works great on my IBM T20. (Although I read elsewhere that you might have problems on a Toshiba laptop). Not quite as fast as a HDD of course, but easily fast enough for my purposes. Backs up my 4MB Quicken file in about 5 seconds, and I can work right off the drive without any noticable delay. Only complaints are the approx 8 second start-up delay, and the noise - kind of a high-pitched whine - but you can't beat the price!
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Summary: Does the job (but not too impressively!)
Review: I bought this parallel port version so that I can transfer from my office PC to my older home non-USB PC as well as to and from other family members' PCs. I know most of them don't have USB ports. The versatility was more important that the speed. The Parallel Port Zip Drive does the intended job but it interferes with my work while it is being used. It locks up the machine for a number of minutes and transfers much slower than its stated transfer rate. So while I don't necessarily regret buying it, I do wish it worked better and at least as quickly as it has been rated to do. I also am now considering buying a RW-CD to do most of my work and only use the Parallel Port Zip when absolutely necessary.
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Summary: Great for self data sharing
Review: I just bought a Compaq Presario 1700T series (customized) Notebook and I was looking for a way to transfer data between it and my desktop system as well to backup all the various projects I'd been working on using it. I had become very acustom to always having a CDRW drive available for these purposes. Long story short: This drive makes up for my lack of a CDRW drive since I can easilly plug it into either system and transfer data between them and make backups. I had put off buying this drive since another review said it didn't work with laptops. So much for that! If you've got a new notebook, don't let that review turn you away. The only bad thing is that it is kind of noisey but it's a steal at {price}!
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Summary: It was Roxio's problem!
Review: I've upgraded my rating from 2 to 4. It turns out "Take Two 5.0" was the primary culprit with the slow boot and was the sole offender for the need to have a zip disk inserted to start Windows 2000 at all. Anyone using Roxio's Easy CD Creator Platinum 5.0 that installed Take Two should visit the [website] to download and install the 5.01 and 5.01s updates! I also found that once I unplugged my 3Com HomeConnect PC camera from my Entrega 4 port usb hub, I didn't stay on the boot screen for 10 minutes. Time to dump Entrega and find newer, higher-powered hubs, I guess.
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Summary: Self-powered isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread...
Review: When run on one of my two USB hubs, my HP Vectra won't get beyond half way on Windows 2000 startup. On the other hub, it takes about 5 minutes to get beyond the HP startup screen and will then get through Windows 2000 startup if, and only if, there's a zip disk fully inserted in the drive. I think this will be my mobile drive and I'll spend half as much on an AC-powered model for my desktop.
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Summary: Iomega 250 mb USB zip drive
Review: A no brainer. Just plug it into a USB port and go. Very fast and easy. The best way to transfer files from one computer to another. Great backup tool. I couldn't be more pleased.
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Summary: Great for backups, but for Norton...
Review: I recently purchased this Zip drive as I was having trouble with my old 100MB parallel port Zip. I think it is a very versatile machine. Although not made externally like made old Model T drive. It has the features and then some. What it DOESN'T have is the ability to become a Norton RESCUE component as my old one did (the very reason I bought it in the first place). Nowhere did I learn that a USB driven Zip drive cannot be used as a RESCUE set for Nortons Systemworks. The reason being (from Norton) is that USB is not considered a real drive mode. Norton says Iomega should modify there hardware with a chipset so it will work in conjunction with the Norton RESCUE program. That is the only downside I find with this piece of hardware.
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