Iomega ZIP 250

So what’s a Zip drive? Well Zip is a computer term for compressing data. So if you have a file which is 1MB of data theoretically you could “zip it up” and it would then be 0.5MB of data, or something close. There is one thing about Zipping that makes this more complex though. The ratio you can compress/Zip data is directly proportional to how much data you want compressed and what kind of data you want compressed. For example: 1. A 1K file will have a bad compression ratio. Say 2%. Because it’s not much data to begin, it’s hard to make something small to begin with smaller. 2. You have 60 Gigs of data (loads) ...  Read the complete review

Floppy disks are ok if you want to store a few word files lets say or something else that is that small, not much use really when ya want to back up ya hard drive or store large files... but who ever came up with the statement 'Bigger is Better' couldn't have been more right! With our computers becoming bigger and better we are storing far much more data, we are downloading much more from the internet and clogging our computers up with it all, but all that is a thing of the past now.... Iomega have come up with a great idea and called it a zip drive! This is basically another floppy disk drive but it will hold at the moment upto 250mb which is ...  Read the complete review

This is a fantastic piece of kit and should be owned by everyone with a computer. The Zip Drive is similar in many ways to a floppy disk drive except instead of 1.44MB of storage space there is 250MB on each disk. This allows MP3 files, large graphics files, video files etc. to be stored and backed up. I never backed up my files because i didn't really see the need and there was no way i could of since i didn't have a storage medium large enough. After all the files on my computer got erased by a virus, including important reports and assignments, i finally gave in and decided to purchase some hardware that allowed me to back up. It was a decision ...  Read the complete review

1.44 Mb of data on a floppy disk just doesn't cut it these days, in fact I think there was only a two week period when they superceeded the 5 1/4 inch disks that they did cut it. PC Anywhere was my next attempt at solving the data transfer problem...it's a pain and just doesn't want to work with Windows NT. CD-R/CD-RW 's just take too long to set up and burn. It was an immense relief, therefore, to find an alternate means of transferring data from A to B. The powers that be decided I should get the SCSI version of the IOMega Winzip 250 drive, I would have picked the Parallel port version if left to my own devices, and ...  Read the complete review

Like a lot of people, I never took seriously backing up my home stuff, relying mainly on putting various important documents on floppy disc, and then only when I could be bothered. And then, like a lot of people my computer went up in smoke and while I was able to restore all the software and settings, and had a whole bunch of documents here and there, I had lost all sorts of useful things, and the rest of my stuff was scattered through a heap of floppy discs. I bought my zip drive to cover me, to put all of my documents onto one disc, in one go. This process has worked very effectively, as the drive is, for all practical purposes, just part of my PC ...  Read the complete review