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) ...

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 ...

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 ...