Iomega to introduce 750MB Zip drive! <Who cares?!>

[Epsil0n00]

I work in a college IT department. A salesman from Iomega was just here in our computer store and was saying that Iomega is going to introduce a 750MB Zip Drive. It will be backwards compatible, though you will not be able to put 750mb disks in 100/250mb drives. Unfortunately, this is all the information I have.

He also said, (like anyone cares) that the Iomega Peerless drives are getting re-vamped and there will soon be 60 and 80GB version. Whoopee!

Personally, I think that Zip drives are the only thing keeping Iomega afloat. I doubt the 750 will be popular, especially with the proliferance of 100/250mb drives already out in the market. Zip drives are useful for quick transfer of files that are too big for a floppy, but not quite right for a CD. I don't think I could find much use for a 750mb disk, I'd rather just burn a CD. Next thing you know, Iomega will be telling people to archive their MP3 collections on Zips instead of CDs. They are going down!

Iomega: "Archive your stuff on something, be it Zip, CD, Jaz, Peerless, etc., as long as it has the Iomega name on it we're happy!"

 

[Goosemaster]

I agree with you that Zips are their only back bone..I think it was their marketing's fault. They heavily promoted the Zip and left it at that...

Peerless seems interesting, but I don't know......a 750MB ZIp? Once blue-laser optical drives come out, their toast on the medium-storage cpacity front. I hope it isn't as slow as the org zip either...I bought the SCSI version for speed, onlt to realize that it tranfered at only a measly 1.5MB/s ...internals weren't olympic champions themselves either.....

Lets not even get into how much faster the ORB 2.2GB was..(!2.2MB/s..I had to gloat for THEIR sake..although I believe htey went under....just like the might(crappy at its end) Sygate:frown

 

[Eug]

Well, if they're fast, they may have limited use, but they'd be better off lower prices on 250 MB zip drives and disks. I don't currently have much use for a 750 MB floppy disk.

They need a USB 2 250 drive, or better yet, a 250 MB pocket zip would be nice.

 

[Wolfsraider]

nope i won't buy anything from iomega ever

i would rather use a 5cent cdr and find more stuff to back up than pay 10.00 to 20.00 for a 250 mb disk:Q

 

[Eug]

<< nope i won't buy anything from iomega ever

i would rather use a 5cent cdr and find more stuff to back up than pay 10.00 to 20.00 for a 250 mb disk:Q >>


I was wondering when somebody would use this argument.

I repeat: CD-R and Zip do different things.

A) CD-R are write once. Zip are write multiple and fully erasable.
B) CD-RW are write many, but to make them quick and easy to use you have to install a packet writing driver. If you do not have packet writing software then the easy to use packet-written discs are unreadable. Also, if you don't install that software then you lose the major benefits of CD-RW. CD-RW simply becomes CD-R will all the headaches of CD-R software, but rewriteable. Zip on the other hand is universal (as long as people have the drive) - works like a floppy.

I use both a 24X burner with CD-RW and a zip drive. In fact, all three of my computers have both, including my laptop. The files are primarily located on my hard drives. When I transfer files I use zip, and when I back up I use CD-R. If I had to use CD-R(W) for everything (like a 70k Word file) I'd rip my hair out. Big pain in the @ss. Zip is the floppy replacement. CD-R is for much larger files, CD and software backups, and file archival.

Actually, CD is becoming less useful for me now. I'm considering DVD-R for backups, because for major backups, 700 MB just doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[hoihtah]

who cares?

I DO!!!

i am a shameful part (a very small part) owner of iomega.
i bought their stock back some time ago...
even before they bought out syquest..

poor me.

i'm just waiting for dell or some major company to buy them out...

 

[Wolfsraider]

sorry but i find on my network that sharing files is just a click away and it had a one time cost of 70.00
again much less than a zip and no added costs for discs and this was before they came down in price or had issues with the click

since i don't share files except with a friend (he can't get the demo's i can for new games i find that 250 mb's is ok most of the time but with cdr's i can give many and much cheaper:Q

and i agree about the dvd-r but was waiting for my next build in may or so

so i guess its what you need or want and i do have the software for cdrw it came with the program i bought so i guess i need to add that to the price and even then at a buck apiece cdrw are very cheap too

 

[CubicZirconia]

I think zip drives are great. Although I think 750 mb is unnecessary, they certainly have their advantages over cd-r/rw's in some case.

 

[SteelCityFan]

I use zip all the time. I use it to back up my checkbook files (Money 98) since they are too big for a floppy. I don't want to have to erase a CD-R and rewrite every other day. Zip is easier.

Oh, and I password protect the zip to keep from erasing it by mistake.

 

[nortexoid]

people like zip drives because they act like regular floppies...CDRWs don't.

of course people that are aware of packet writing software use their CDRWs like floppies..but then again, u get 200MB MORE per zip disc, since a full format of a RW disc leaves you at 550MB (100mb for format)...and they seem to be incompatible w/ DOS. (mine are anyway using inCD)

zip drives have their place...the only way they'll be able to sell these puppies is because they already have a fairly huge user base currently using crappy 100/250 drives/discs...mad overpriced per disc, which is the only thing, IMO, making them unattractive.

 

[ElFenix]

where i work at we are told that anyone calling in for zip drives to try to sell them a cd rw. cdrs are so cheap that it doesn't matter if you throw them out, its still cheaper than a zip disk. and a bit more reliable. and it will work in pretty much any computer made in the last 6 or 7 years. you'd be amazed at how many people think you can only burn music to a cdr. its incredible.