Iomega ZIP 250 MB USB Powered

This 250MB Zip drive is a dream to use, there is no annoying power cable (thanks to USB) and you don’t need to restart your PC just to use it. Its access speed is a little slower because of the USB (compared to the Parallel Port) but who cares, it’s only a few nano seconds difference. You’re talking about 2mins for 250MBs! ...  Read the complete review

Since I took up digital photography earlier in the year, I have been increasingly worried about losing my computer files. It's relatively easy to back-up a few word-processed documents or a few hundred e-mails because you can use floppy disks for the small sizes of most text-based documents, but when it comes to hundreds of large digital photographs it becomes a different matter. My mind was concentrated on the problem when after a recent family event including a canal boat trip and a restaurant meal at which lots of photographs had been taken, a couple of days later I had an accident with a glass of lager and the keyboard on my laptop computer. Fortunately on ...  Read the complete review

I had waited to purchase the host powered version of the drive to go with my Dell laptop (read opinion) to provide a good portable drive solution which gives me access to all my data. Boy was it worth the wait, and it was also cheap as well. Opening the box sees a new shaped Zip 250 disk providing immediate use of the drive, a stand to hold the drive vertiacally, two CDs with system software and an application disks and a USB cable to connect it to the PC. Where's the power cable? Well this drive doesn't need one. The drive is powered by the USB port and so ideal for portable use. No need to fork out another 25 quid for the PMCIA connection. ...  Read the complete review

Back in 1996 I had a PC built for me by a local company. I was fairly vague about the specification, but one thing I did specify was for an internal SCSI Zip 100 drive to be included. Fast forward to February of last year. I obtained a new Hewlett Packard laptop and my brother bought himself a new desktop machine. The logical progression was to buy a Parallel Zip 250. Another six months passed and then I finally got the unit that we are reviewing here, the Zip 250 USB. If the Parallel Zip 250 drive was like the family saloon car, then the USB model is like the sports coupe. Not only is it faster, but the technological advances mean that the drive mechanism is also now ...  Read the complete review

I have just bought this device today 15/600. Installation was easy I had previously downloaded the latest drivers from the net (didn`t bother with the cd). I plugged it in to the usb port windows asked me for the drivers and that was it away I go. I wanted this device because It is now dead easy to take work home from the office as they have a zip drive. Advantages: Very portable will plug into anything with a usb port 250mb disks although i still think these are rather expensive they should lower the price (my opinion anyway. I liked the colour of the device a see-through. Formating was done via the software and once done I was suprised ...  Read the complete review