by - written on 20/06/11 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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First released in 1994, Iomega's Zip Drive was intended as a replacement for the floppy disk which was limited in terms of its speed and capacity. I first purchased a Zip Drive around ten years ago, and found it to be a reliable and quick method of saving files before the CD writer was commonplace. These days the Zip drive is almost ... Read the complete review
by - written on 25/01/03, updated on 25/01/03 (Very useful, 352 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review
Iomega ZIP 100 MB USB: Just like 'Zippy' from Rainbow (1087 words)by - written on 07/10/01, updated on 07/10/01 (Very useful, 718 readings)
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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, ... Read the complete review
by - written on 23/07/01, updated on 23/07/01 (Useful, 54 readings)
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Whether you get a Zip Drive or not depends on what you are going to use it for. Zip drives are very good at transfering data from one machine to another. Data is quicker to write than a CD-R and the bonus is it can be re-written as many times as you want. If however if you dont have a very big hard drive, and you want ... Read the complete review
by - written on 03/07/01, updated on 03/07/01 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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If there is one thing I have learned from dealing with computers, it is that however good a product seems, it is only as good as the company who manufactures it. I bought an Iomega External Zip Drive just over six months ago, and it was a great help in organising and storing information. However, six days ago it ... Read the complete review
by - written on 02/04/01, updated on 02/04/01 (Very useful, 207 readings)
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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 ... Read the complete review
by - written on 27/03/01, updated on 27/03/01 (Very useful, 255 readings)
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IOMEGA ZIP-100 DRIVES If you’ve got a Zip100 drive that used to work, but doesn’t now – read this! We bought an Iomega Zip-100 drive and disks in about 1996, in 2000 it stopped working. I thought the usual – well that’s broke, I’ll have to buy a new one. But just for fun I phoned the ... Read the complete review
by - written on 23/01/01, updated on 23/01/01 (Useful, 69 readings)
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My zip drive doesnt look anything like the pic of the one that looks like a car, but its still pretty sheek. Its really thin, and can stand on its side, or on its base, so its very spacially economic. The fact that it is USB, makes it really really easy to connect, no more having to do up those fiddly screws on the com port plugs! It ... Read the complete review
by - written on 05/11/00, updated on 19/12/00
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If you are considering buying yourself a nice new Zip drive, don`t forget that they aren`t tremendously reliable. if you want to know mroe about this then search for the expression "Click of death" and you`ll get plenty of websites with enough detail for you. Basically the problem is that after a fair bit of use the ... Read the complete review
by - written on 04/11/00, updated on 04/11/00 (Useful, 32 readings)
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I needed to get some sort of removable storage device as I have an iMac and they don't have floppy drives, and as far as I'm concerned floppies are useless apart from the fact that they are universal. I'm very happy with my Zip drive on this computer for backups and so on, but for some reason I can't install the ... Read the complete review
by - written on 10/10/00, updated on 19/12/00
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The Zip drive is a fairly old bit of technology that just keeps on getting re-hashed and brought back out again in a slightly different version. This is essentially the first kind of Zip drive that came out, with it`s 100 Megabyte capacity. The drive itself is fairly slow relative to your hard0drive, although it is a huge improvment ... Read the complete review
by - written on 12/07/00, updated on 12/07/00
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I find my Zip 100 drive very useful, especially as i often have to transfer large files between the PCs of my friends and myself. My Zip 100 drive means that I can easily do this, without having to use the fiddly Microsoft BackUp program. I used to have an internal Zip 100 drive, but it broke so I now have external. I think that the ... Read the complete review
