Iomega ZIP 100 MB USB

For those of you ready to reminisce about a children's cartoon program featuring a bloke with a zip-up mouth, you've come to the wrong place. But if you want to know about a powerful, handy floppy disk replacement, then you've clicked correctly. The Zip drive. It is an interesting beast. I am a bit of an iomega fan, as they're gear always seems to be built to a high quality. So, when I bought my tasty translucent Apple iMac, I also threw in a Zip 100 external drive. I used to use it a lot, but my enjoyment of it has been reduced ever since I bought a CD-burner. That's because of price. A Zip drive may seem cheap when buying it: you ...  Read the complete review

Some time ago, I decided it was time to purchase some form of removable storage device - I had started to find that many of my files were simply too large to store on floppy discs. It was fairly clear to me that it would either be a CD writer or a Zip drive as these seemed to be the two best storage devices around. A CD-R sounded good because you can store an impressive 650MB of data on it and most PCs have CD ROMs nowadays so compatibility wouldn't be a problem. However, at the time, CD-Rs were a lot more expensive than Zip drives. A Zip drive sounded good because it works in the same way as a floppy drive, but holds 100 or even 250 MB of data instead of ...  Read the complete review

Zip drives are modern replacements for the 3.5 inch floppies that most computers still use for removable storage devices. They allow you to store a great 100MB on one zip disc, which looks like a slightly fatter floppy disk. 100MB doesn't sound much in our world of 40GB hard drives, but lets not forget that it is about the same as 100 floppy disks, and is meant as a portable storage device, not a replacement for hard drives. As such it is great for backing up files, especially image files which tend to take up a large amount of disc space. The Zip drive is a lovely see-through blue design that is an obvious imitation of the iMac craze. It is a USB ...  Read the complete review

Aside from being very reasonable in price, the Iomega Zip Drive is a fast and simple way for removable storage. Each disk will hold up to 100 MegaBytes of information, which allows you to store very large backup files. The entire unit is so small, you can take it from home to work without any trouble at all. In my opinion, the best feature about this particular Zip Drive is it's USB interface. Hot-swappable USB lets you quickly plug and unplug the device, without having to deal with those serial Zip Drives where you have to line up the pins to fit it in your computer port. Why do you think USB has the slogan 'plug & play'? The Zip software enables it ...  Read the complete review

As most people will remember, the only form of media for storing files used to be the humble floppy disk. This was a very decent product in it's time because the size of most files were quite small, allowing a large portion of your data to stored this way. Even today the floppy can be useful for Excel spreadsheets or Word documents, but with the ever increasing size of files such as audio, photo and video content a larger has become essential. The current available options are Zip drive, LS120 or CD writer. A CD writer will offer a very healthy 700 Mb of storage, but requires either a new disk each time you change the content or a Rewitable disk. Even a ...  Read the complete review