Advantages: Small and compact
Disadvantages: Breakable and horrible colour

...Hiya sorry about the boredom about these floppy disks first the imation 3 1/2" floppu disks and now its those pesky 3M's. Right i am sorry to say that my other batch of imation floppy disks have run out. So i phoned my supplier and i was informed by the lovely lady called charlie that they had run out. So she did suggest i try the new 3M pack of 10 floppies. Right onto the product in hand: These are the worst floppy disks i have ever purchased, the colour black is the worst ever but i must agree that floppies are the same as any other floppies. These floppy disks are not pre-formatted so you would need to format them yourself which is really time consuming, especially if you have a really important report due in the next day for the bank as i did. These floppies are not as good as the Imation series as all of these disks are completely... Read review

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Advantages: Compact
Disadvantages: Small 1.44MB storage space

...*UPDATE TO GET MORE VIEWERS 25/10/2005* NOTE THIS IS ABOUT ALL FLOPPY DISKS - NOT JUST THESE ONES Floppy disks are compact Floppy disks were good in the 1980's However floppy disks are not very useful unless you want to transport very small files Most, if not all floppy disks have a 'massive' 1.44MB storage space (1.37MB formatted) The speed of writing on the disk is ridiculous - taking up to a minute or more to transfer 1.37MB of files onto the disk, and the write enable tab can easily be removed or broken, as well as the metal protection cover can also easily be broken off. Reading from the disk is also slow taking many seconds to read any file, even a 20KB word document, and the data on the disks are likely to get corrupted. Floppy disks are very easily damaged and become unusable, even after formatting the disk. DONT USE MOBILE... Read review

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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

...INTRODUCTION For those of you 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 your computer's USB port and requires no additional mains plug 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... Read review

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Advantages: back up all your work and password protect it
Disadvantages: ???????????????????????

...Zip disks are excelent. for example if your computer went completly wrong and you couldn't get back into your hard drive and you ended up reformating, you would loose all your files, programmes etc. all your work all that hard work! with zip disks you can back up all your work or just save it to there in the first place. maybe you have private stuff you do't want the rest of your familly to see you can password protect your disk. zip disks are basicaly floppy disks but much better. zip disks will hold 100-250 mb but a normal floppy will do 1.5 mb... Read review

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Advantages: Quick, Easy, Reliable, Small, Fits into any pocket or bag
Disadvantages: Faded out use lately

...I originally bought this external floppy drive a few years ago after the standard for laptops was not to have an inbuilt floppy drive already in them however at the time floppy disks were still in use from time to time. It doesn't mean that this can't be used for desktop computers that don't have internal floppy drives. Power ********* Usually when having an external device like an external hard drive or optical drive you would usually need more than one lead. It would usually be a cable for the power into a power socket in the wall and a separate cable to send and receive data between the device and the computer however with this external floppy drive it has completely changed. Now all that is need with this floppy drive is simply just one USB cable with a mini USB connected to the drive making it quick and easy to use when your... Read review

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Advantages: Colourful
Disadvantages: Break too easily

...I would call these Imation 1.44Mb floppies. I recently brought these from my local Argos store in Hastings as my office equipment supplier said that i place my order too late for next day delivery. I came across these floppy disks in my catalouge near to the PC pages and said that all of the other packs of floppy disks have the same amount of space which is currently 1.44Mb of storage but these ones have colour co-ordination to them and the others have not. I asked the lady at the help desk and she said that the only thing about these ones is that colour coded ones are easier to identify so you wont need to bother about looking at the label ever again. OK i said i will take those please, Only to find out when i got back to the office there were 2 of each colour: Blue, Red, Yellow, Green and Lime. a 10 pack in all. So when i got them... Read review

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