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Summary: Iomega Zip 100 USB is great
Review: After struggling for several months to get a CD-RW drive to work properly, I ordered the Iomega Zip 100 USB drive and it works great. Within 20 minutes of opening the box, I had the Zip drive copying files. The drive works very intuitively and is a breeze to use as compared to the CD-RW drive. The disks only hold 100 MB, but this is more than enough for the needs of my office. I also bought a 6-pack of the Zip disks, which should satisfy my needs for a long time. Try the Iomega Zip drive, you'll like it.
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Summary: Home User
Review: Boy am I sorry I ever bought this item. As mentioned by another user - it lasted less than 2 years - then it started to destroy any zip disk you attempted to write to. When I contacted customer service - instead of admitting they had a problem - I got - it sounds like maybe your drive is damaging your disks. You are out of warranty - but for $55.00 or so we will send you a reconditioned one with a 120 day warranty - and you pay for shipping. Forget it - save your money - buy a flash drive from Sony or use CDs - but don't buy anything from Iomega. They do not back their products - and their quality is highly questionable.
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Summary: best 100mb zip drive model (isn't this the 5th model?!?!)
Review: Good price, great drive. Since it's usb powered, you don't have to drag around a power block with your laptop. I was going to buy the 250mb drive, but realized that most of the zip drives out there are 100mb anyway, and wouldn't read a 250mb zip disk. Out of all of the 100mb zip drive models I've used (the university I go to has different kinds of zip drives in their computer labs), this is my favorite....but it is kinda loud.
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Summary: Iomega USB-Powered Zip Drive a Workhorse
Review: I bought this drive in 2002 and plugged the usb connection into my Windows 2000 Desktop, powered up my computer, and voila it installed itself. I did not install any software that came with it. I DO NOT recommend installing their software. Read on:
I also have an Iomega Parallel Zip Drive connected to a laptop with Windows 98. I made the mistake of installing the software that came with it. It has consistently given me error messages. The first time I use it to either copy to or from it works fine. After that, it says the disk is full, retry. This happens even if the disk is empty. Pressing F5 (refresh) doesn't work. Even if I remove the disk and reinsert it, I get the same message. The only way to do more work, is to completely reboot the computer. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling their software, but no difference.
But my USB version with Win2000 is superb. Highly recommend this unit. Three years and going strong.
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Summary: Great at first, but...
Review: I don't know if it's the zip drive or my computer, but after using this zip drive for about 6 months, I now have trouble with it. When I insert a zip disk, the drive does not always respond (usually the green light blinks and it whirs when a disk is inserted). The computer tells me the drive is "inaccessible" and I have to restart the computer to get the disk out. This will also happen if I've used the drive successfully at first but then leave the disk in there. This is all very annoying and slows my work down considerably.
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Summary: Impressively fast.
Review: I got this drive to save on wasted CDs, which mount up, when loaded with lots of small incidentals. Not having used a ZIP drive before I was expecting something like a floppy disc performance on a larger scale, but was surprised at its almost hard drive read / write speed. It's also good not to have to lug another power unit around with my laptop, as is the negligible demand on system resources unlike that of some portable CD burners. The 100MB capacity may appear paltry by today's standards, yet is sufficient for the majority of instances. The 100MB media is also easier on the pocket. A disc can be electronically write protected, and read /write protected by using a password. This feature is not available for a CD unless the files are encrypted inside a .ZIP or some other kind of archive file, or an encrypted file, such as ABIcoder. So security is simplified with your ZIP drive. By plugging the ZIP drive into a USB port it will be recognised as a removable drive, that can be read and written to by dragging and dropping in the normal fashion. Any Iomega features will not be available, for which you have to install the Iomega software. My experience of this installation is as follows: When the installation is complete, choose the Reboot Later option, and manually restart your computer to finish. The Iomega auto option tends to hang the computer and things don't work out as expected. After re-booting, confirm - in windows - that the Send To drop down, displays the ZIP drive along with your floppy drive, etc. If not, the installation will need to be re-done. So far I've installed the Iomega software onto a laptop running Win 98 SE and two desktops. One of the desktops - a Win 2000 machine - didn't like it, and will need to be sorted out, since something has gone amiss with the services detection. It works okay after the alert times out, after a couple of minutes, but is irksome. The other desktop, also a Win 2000 machine, installed okay. The problematic machine has been through the wars, so why a problem arose is impossible to say at present. So... if the straightforward removable drive option is sufficient, stick with that: especially if it's someone else's machine your plugging into.
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Summary: Sweet
Review: I have owned this drive for almost one year and have had zero problems with it. Windows XP recognizes the device when you plug it in and you can use it immediately. 100mb is usually plenty of space for most things. I highly recommend this device!
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Summary: Defective design
Review: I own this drive for 2 years, but recently it broke my 5 diskes. I know anorther drive is with same problem.So basically it only last 1-2 years.You can buy a more space usb memory for same price.
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Summary: I don't like it
Review: On my pentium 4 running windows XP, USB 1.1 connection it works only about 25% of the time.. There seems to some ZIP 100 mb disks that it will read reliably, but other ZIP 100 mb disks are not recognized. The age of the disks makes no difference.
Another computer running win 98 with an internal zip drive reads all disk without problems. I have had to mark the disks that it will read and use only them in this drive.
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