250 meg zip disk - easy question

[Lalakai]

okay, I've looked at Iomega website and talked with some vendors, and still can't find the answer. Is the 250 meg zip disk a true 250 capacity, or is it 130 meg (but with compression will yield 250 (as the fuji does))? Hopefully someone here can save me the time of calling Iomega and being put on hold to actually talk to a technician. thanks for the help folks.

 

[Maniac9127]

They're 250MB in the same way that HDDs are 80GBs, in that 1000KB = 1MB, so they're really 244MB, and the 100MB disks are acually 90 something.

 

[Lalakai]

thanks. I was a bit nervous/disappointed when I read the info on the fuji disks, where they said their 250's were actually 130 meg but with compression you could get 250. Glad to see that the original zips are holding true.

have a good night maniac9127

 

[SUOrangeman]

Actually, the file system will come into play here. With FAT12/16, Zip100 carts are about 95.7MB and Zip250s are 238MB or so.

-SUO