Iomega Zip 750 USB 2.0 Review

[NFS4]

http://www.envynews.com/review.php?ID=166

 

[ai42]

Yeash talk about a waste.

With CDRW drives getting so cheap and free CDRs after rebate almost every week at best buy etc etc. Sorry but I think Iomega is wasting their time with this. And it has instability with Zip 100 disks?!

 

[Mday]

techtv also did a review... it sucks =)

 

[edjam]

Yeah I have to see I dont see the point, even portable hard drives are at similar levels with much bigger capacities available.

 

[IgoByte]

It's better to get a 1GB microdrive and PCMCIA adapter and use that for the ultimate in portability. It's not very expensive either.

I've had too many problems with IOmega's products to support any new release. Had tremendous troubles with my 250MB drive.

 

[HalfCrazy]

I still have a USB Zip-100 which comes in handy know and then to store a few basic files. Just the files you got to have but only use now and then.

 

[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?

 

[ElFenix]

oh boy, a new dead technology!

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
oh boy, a new dead technology!

Exactly...but at least we have Iomega-the leader in developing new dead technologies, on the job.

 

[Athlon4all]

yep, the ZXip standard has pretty much on its fallen to its final breaths with CD-R's being so cheap and compatibile with nearly every PC avialable to read a CD-R, its all but dead now.

 

[mastertech01]

Another fine product for Iomega to drop all support for in another year.. yeah!

 

[Lucky]

For me, I have a fan in the top of my computer case, and the cables run right over this "blow hole", disturbing the air flow.

What an idiot. Any reviewer that complaining that a USB cable disturbs the airflow is just retarded.

Plus, what if someone already has an external device on top of their computer case, where would this now go?

Duh, on top of it?

The zip 750 may suck but so does that reviewer.

 

[AluminumStudios]

Things had gotten too quite. We need a new drive to provide us with a new click of death!

 

[Eug]

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.)

 

[Whitedog]

LMAO!! Every time I hear mention of ZIP drives it reminds me of a help call we got at work one time..

"Hello, Help Desk? I recieved a ZIP file in the e-mail, but I don't have a ZIP drive on my computer to read the file with.. can someone with a ZIP drive read this file for me?"

*click*

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

 

[AluminumStudios]

Whitedog, I had one of those before too! I couldn't convince the user that zip files had nothing to do with Zip drives!