Iomega Zip 250 MB USB Powered

Advantages: Easy, sleek, cheap and safe - what more could you want
Disadvantages: None

...computer installation I decided upon Iomega Zip drives as my back up facility. I have used an older model Zip drive attached to the parallel port in the past. The printer was then daisy chained onto the back of the Zip drive. Apart from slight slowness in large back up procedures (graphics files for instance) and the inability to use the printer and back up at the same time, the drive had given incident free service for over three years. My archive ...
...drive and my archive files. Iomega have recently introduced an even higher (750MB) Zip drive. I suppose it is possible that in due course the 100MB drives will be phased out. There is promised perpetuation of compatibility with the old 100MB disks even in these higher capacity drives. If you still don’t do back ups – start doing so now. These drives are cheap, highly efficient and look quite sleek. I recommended them highly. ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, quick, easy to use, 250MB storage
Disadvantages: Annoying power cable!

...The 250MB Zip Drive from Iomega allows you to use 250MB disks and 100MB disks in its drive. This means that if you had brought an old Zip drive which only supported 100MB then you wouldn’t need to buy new disks. Both 100MB disks and 250MB disks work in this drive. The drive itself is about the same size as Roald Dahl’s THE BFG softback book. It’s really no t very big and it’s lightweight. So you can carry it round in your, ...
...The 250MB Zip Drive from Iomega is a great machine. Small, lightweight sleek looking and copies data pretty damn fast. Technically it does what it should and it does it well. Being able to access quickly disks of 250MB is no mean feat. This is a great machine. It is so fast you can even listen to music from disk. It is small and lightweight but the power cables are really gonna pee you off. Also because it is a parallel port machine it will replace ... Read review

Advantages: good portable storage
Disadvantages: bit expensive compared to a cd writer and media

There's little doubt that the Iomega Zip drive is now the market leader in removable storage devices, ahead of its nearest rivals the LS-120 and Sony's HiFD drives. However the Zip's 100MB of storage has started to seem a little miserly given that the demand for capacity continues to rise - driven in part by the increasing use of graphics, video and sound files on the Internet and company-wide intranets. But the new Zip 250 has leapt ahead of its ...
...HiFD super-floppy drive. Like its predecessor, the Zip 250 is available in a variety of flavours, both internal and external, and with a choice of interface. The most popular of these will probably turn out to be the external drive, which is currently available with either a parallel port or a SCSI connection to the PC. A USB version is on the horizon, though a USB Zip 100 drive is already available. The drive itself is a slender little thing: slim, ... Read review

Advantages: Bigger than floppy disks and "nice" design
Disadvantages: Too small a capacity for the price, disks are too expensive & data transfer between the drive and your computer is very slow

...much faster. In short - Iomega - thanks for a great invention to keep us going before we got CD Writers, but for the price I will stick with my CD-RW. NOTE: Thankfully I managed to get £75 for my second hand drive on e-bay (see my review) ... Read review

Advantages: quicker than floppys, holds several hundread MBs of data, easy to carry around
Disadvantages: will need a zip drive, not all computers will have them

...who don't know what a Iomega Zip 250 USB Powered is, it is a portable storage device which accepts disks roughly double the thickness of a standard floppy disk. They store about 70 times the amount of data than a standard 1.44MB floppy disk does. The device is a small, lightweight and attractive looking device that can be easily placed near your computer without taking up much desk space. The good thing about the device is that it is powered from ...
...or batteries. DISKS TO BE USED WITH THIS DEVICE There are various disks that can be used in the device. Only ZIP compatable ones though that can vary in size from 25MB, 100MB to 250MB. You will find that 100MB and 250MB are used now. The typical price of a 250MB disk is around £10, although as ZIP drives have been around for a few years now this price is dropping all the time. If you are wondering what 250MB of data storage will hold then think ... Read review