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Summary: Served us well.
Review: ...whencomparing the ZIP drive to CDR's .. what the ZIP drive brings to thetable in spades is portability. One example, I use Napster at work (thru a LAN) all day long. At the end of my day, I simply hook up my ZIP (takes 1 minute) to my NT workstation (beware: ZIP USB does NOT work in NT) and copy all the songs. Pack it up and later at home dump all the songs in my HD. Unless you have a CD-ROM burner at work (and how many of us do?) you simply cannot replicate this kind of functionality with any other device.
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Summary: Consider why you need a ZIP drive
Review: ...whencomparing the ZIP drive to CDR's .. what the ZIP drive brings to thetable in spades is portability. One example, I use Napster at work (thru a LAN) all day long. At the end of my day, I simply hook up my ZIP (takes 1 minute) to my NT workstation (beware: ZIP USB does NOT work in NT) and copy all the songs. Pack it up and later at home dump all the songs in my HD. Unless you have a CD-ROM burner at work (and how many of us do?) you simply cannot replicate this kind of functionality with any other device.
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Summary: good, but could be better
Review: i bought one of these to backup my ever growing collection of gross pictures and sounds that i've complied from days on the internet. i was impressed with the speed of data retrieval and storage, but the parallel port device has its drawbacks. namely, it doesn't play nice with my printer, so i can only have one of them hooked up at a time (i have a 720 series hp deskjet). and to add insult to injury, even iomega and hp are clueless as how to fix this. if you've got the space and knowhow, buy the internal drive and save your parallel port for your printer.
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Summary: Zip 100's cause printer problems
Review: I followed all the Iomega instructions to a tee and I lost the ability to use my printer. Evidently the Zip drive has somehow confused my PC so now, even though I've disconnected the Zip, I still can't print. Zip or Amazon needs to warn buyers of this. Please send me some help! I am mad as hell that "this wonderful product" has taken away my printer. Can anyone help?
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Summary: Good for one year
Review: I had a 100MB Zip Drive that just last with me one year. When I need it most it stop working. Now I have a lot of important data in my Zip disk and I do not have a Zip Drive. Maybe what happen to me it is rarely, but I'll tell you, I have never seen a drive that stop working like this before. Not even the old 5 1/4.
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Summary: Works great on a 486
Review: I have a 486 that I use this drive on. I am so surprised at the speed that it reads the info through the parallel port. I had heard that the parallel port could be slow with a ZIP drive, but it seems to work about the same speed as an ATAPI drive I had preinstalled on my PII 400Mhz. The price is right for ZIP drives. Don't bother with the 250 MB drive - disks are more and not enough people have the drives yet that support them.
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Summary: the most popular removable storage next to floppies
Review: I have enjoyed the convenience of my zip drive- My university's graphics computers have zip drives, the local Kinkos have zip drives in their computers, my parents even have a zip drive now. Its a nice, accepted standard, and for the price the disks read fast and work well- unlike 3.5 floppies, no zip disk has ever corrupted data for me. Zip disks are made of sturdy plastic which you can safely keep in your (shirt) pocket without damage.The strongest competetitor to the zip disk standard is the 120 MB super-drive, which is a drive that is backwards-compatible with 1.6 MB (traditional)3.5 floppies, so you can totally replace your old floppy drive and still have it when you need it. A couple years ago it was expected that this drive would blow Iomega zip out of the picture, but super-floppies haven't really caught on. In terms of exchanging data between computers in the same house, it is suprisingly simple to run an ethernet network instead- and there are other advantage besides transfering files- such as printer sharing and web sharing. -Note. I think the zip 100 is more functional for the price than the 250 zip. -(For backing up really large files, the best thing these days is a cd writer or re-writer.)
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Summary: An OK drive
Review: I have had my Zip drive for almost 3 years and it has worked great. Although the performance of the drive has been great I find that the media to be too expensive and much larger than the comparable LS120 drives. Another suggestion is your buying this drive to use it for fast access to your files, don't go with the parallel. Instead go with the internal IDE or the SCSI. Both of these are at least twice as fast as a parallel drive.
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Summary: power cord
Review: I like the iomega zip drive for storing things and saving space
on my hard drive. But i don't have a power cord anymore. Where can i purchase a cord from.
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Summary: Useful at certain times...
Review: I think that this is a half-and-half deal. I mean, the drive has an acceptable price, but being someone who has to back up information frequently, this does the job better, but there are much cheaper drives out there. The disks are pretty expensive, though, anywhere from less than $10 to more than $15; it depends where you buy it and how many you buy. Iomega's tech support is ridiculous, however, you'll find that they charge about $25 each time you call for help. I would recommend the Jaz drive or Castlewood's 2.2 GB Drive (cheap, huge capacity).
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