Iomega ZIPCD

In January this year, I finally convinced my conscience that I needed a CD-Writer, for backups and the like. Having previously owned an Iomega Ditto tape drive and been more than impressed by Iomega customer services (a replacement unit was sent to me within 1 week of reporting a fault!), I didn't have any reservations about investing in their ZipCD re-writer (internal IDE). Boasting a 24x read speed with 4x write and 4x re-write it was not too far off top of the range at the time, add to this the software (Adaptec EasyCd, CD Copier Deluxe and DirectCD) and it looked an attractive bundle for the price. When it arrived, I was not disappointed. Opening the ...  Read the complete review

I wanted a CD burner. I'd love to tell you I wanted one to store vitally important information that I had created and copyrighted myself. That wouldn't be true. If you've read any of my other opinions you'll be aware that the world will not wish to keep copies at the British Library, and the Smithsonian is not going to open a new wing for my musings. I wanted a burner for music, and plenty of it. I am however, a technology idiot, and whilst I happily buy anything new on the market I can't work any of it. For that reason I decided that an external CD writer was the only way I could be sure that I wouldn't ...  Read the complete review

I have a laptop and I needed to be able to send 100Mb files to a graphic designer with a Macintosh. Its too big to send by email or floppy disks. He has a 100Mb zip drive, so I could have bought one of those. However, it would have cost £50 or so just for an external zip drive, and then the cartridges are expensive enough to think twice about sending them around. With a writable CD drive, you get the choice of using CD-R's which can only be written once, but only cost about 25p, or a CD-RW which can be written to in several different sessions but cost about a pound. The nice thing about a CD is that just about every computer will be able to read it ...  Read the complete review

Here’s a great piece of kit that is invaluable to virtually all PC users! There’s nothing worse than losing all your saved work when Windows refuses to work & that’s where the CD-RW comes into its own as it saves a lot of time & effort when this type of thing happens & it does happen. I bought my Zip 650 for a bargain price of £70 because it had the cables & software missing, but that was easily fixed as it only costs a few quid for the EIDE cable (if you haven’t got a spare or spare connector in your PC) & the software was readily easy to find, download & install from Iomega’s web site. The drive I picked up wasn’t ...  Read the complete review

I wanted a write-able CD drive primarily for back-up, with the bonus of taking a copy of some audio CDs for use in the car. I didn't want to open up my computer so decided to get an external USB drive. Faced with several machines at PC-World I chose Iomega as the only manufacturers name that I recognised, and one that has a reputation in the area of backup copying. The Iomega drive is quite attractive in a dark purple housing. It takes both CD-R and CD-WR but needs Pentium 166 or higher with Windows 98 with Service Pack 1 or Win 98 Second Edition, and built in USB controller. Installation was a lot less complex than implied on the ...  Read the complete review