Zip 250 where have all the disk drives gone?
Written: Jan 16 '00
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Pros: Bigger storage.
Cons: Small market saturation.
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| gjax's Full Review: Iomega Zip 250 External SCSI Drive |
The joy of the zip drive is that everybody has one. You can throw 100 megs of pictures, programs, music, whatever on a zip disk and give it to your friends. If you work in technology you can take those huge photoshop files home and throw them in your zip drive and use them there. It's great. This is the greatest flaw with the zip 250. If everyone had them then I would buy one, but everyone doesn't. I can't justify to myself spending the extra money on a zip 250 if all the 250 is really good for is backup. I have a cd-r and I'm on a home network. If I really need to backup files I have more efficient ways of doing it than with a zip drive. Zip drives are for transfering massive files. If you can convince your boss to buy you one for work and then have one at home so you can move files over 100 megs then thats great. If you want to buy a USB one and lug it around with you to transfer files then that's your perogative, but in the end a CD-RW is a more common format and while it's harder to use it's still better than a zip 250. I'm going to stick with the 100 meg disks for a while.
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