My zip 100 and zip 250 drives have served me well, and I continue to use zip 250. However, zip 750 is simply too late, and actually I'd say for most people who want zip, zip 250 is preferred, since they maintain full compatibility to zip 100, whereas zip 750 does not.
IMO the natural successor to the floppy (and zip) should be DVD-RAM. It already has full drag-n-drop read/write capability with FAT32 in Windows XP and Mac OS X.2 (with full read/write with HFS+ as well on the Mac), without need of extra drivers or burning software. Furthermore, the data format is secure with the addressing info pre-written onto the disc, and with all writes being verified. And the disc is (preferably but not necessarily) cartridge-based.
People seem to be pushing packet-writing (Mt. Rainier) on CD-R as the next floppy replacement, but that seems to be driven by cost more than anything, including reliability.
Originally posted by: vetteguy
Is a Zip drive even able to take advantage of USB 2.0 speeds? I mean, how fast can it possibly read one of those disks?
USB 1.1 holds up even Zip 250 speeds, and a Zip 750 is much faster. (Over 3 MB/s.)