[Poll]Iomega Zip/Jaz Drives: A thing of the past?

[SaltBoy]

Just curious as to what you think

 

[Lars]

There is no reason for me to use my Zip drive anymore. It is somewhere in the closet.

 

[Mitzi]

I still use my zip drive to transfer files to and from University. I wouldn't say its dead but it certainly doesn't get as much use as it used to.

 

[Supahfreak]

Where I work it's just more convenient to use Zip/ Jaz then to burn CDR/RW everytime you wanna transport a 60 Meg file.

FreAk

 

[eplebnista]

I still use my Zip drive on a regular basis.

 

[Electrode]

Zip drives, expecially the 250 meg models, are a MUST for OS repair as I see it. On a 250 meg disk I can fit Windows 98 SE, Partition Magic, Cygwin, and Ghost, or a Linux kernel, every module I could possibly want, bash, vim, cfdisk, XFree86, and Blackbox!

Before you even say the word "CD-RW" in reply to this, let me point out that although you might be able to boot Linux into a ramdisk, your configuration when you burn is perminant and inflexible, and Windows won't boot at all! Zip disks are readable and writable, so Windows can boot and Linux can be altered.

Until another removable storage medium, which can be used with any OS, on many different architectures, and can be read and written like a floppy, is created, Zip will live on.

As for Jaz, it was never popular simply because it was too expensive.

 

[Thegonagle]

My mom and my step-dad both use them to move large files between home and work. They are wonderfully convenient because they are supported in the OS as just another disk drive, which means read-write access while any program using a file on the disk is running. That's something CD-RWs cannot do. CD-RWs require separate software that takes time to use.

 

[hoihtah]

i still own iomega stock.
i bought it way back when zip was big.

now that the price has been scraping the bottom... i'm just hoping that one day... MS will buy them out.

but honestly,... i doubt it. i've given up hopes on iom.

 

[chibchakan]

<< In my day, we used Zip/Jaz drives, we still do, and WE LOVE IT!! >>

 

[BeauJangles]

They are too expensive to become mainstream. THe day I can buy a zip drive for $20 and disks for $1 a piece that will be the day that they become mainstream and replace floppies (oh and they would have to be bootable too )