Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Oct 18, 2000
Pros: Easier to save files than a tape backup
Cons: the unit isn't portable
Summary: I recently set up a new PC for my family. We had a old out dated Pentium 150 machine that I built several years ago. In the old machine we had to use a external tape back up drive when it came time to save vital information.Well the tapes for this tape ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 30, 2001
Pros: Easy to use, inexpensive, fast, and password protected.
Cons: Not portable and not widely used.
Summary: I love my Iomega Zip Drive 100(mb). It was one of the best purchases I've ever made. It provides lots of storage space, privacy, and it will be my saving grace when my HD finally dies.
Yes, Zip drives may be obsolete in this scary age of new ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2001
Pros: Fast, Easy, Small disks.
Cons: none
Summary: The zip drive is a great product. Although they hold much less space than a CD-R or CD-RW they are still great. They are easier to upload and download files than CD's. The software that you can download for them allows you to automatically back up ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2001
Pros: Excellent customer service
Cons: Drive shouldn't have failed to begin with
Summary: The symptoms of a "click of death" drive start with the drive emitting a series of audible and distinctive clicking sounds, either when a disk is first inserted or when attempting to read or write data to the disk.
Fortunately Iomega is taking ... read more
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Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
Jun 17, 2001
Pros: Perfect size for a super floppy, almost everywhere
Cons: Not everywhere, questionable reliablity
Summary: Iomega's Zip media and drive format was very popular, but still haven't saturated the market. The Zip drive was a promissing floppy replacement more so during 1996 to 1998. During those years, PC manufacturers started to integrate Zip drives into thier ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 17, 2001
Pros: Easy to use for those who are only moderately computer literate
Cons: There are faster and easier ways to mobilize your data
Summary: I bought my first and only ZIP drive nearly two years ago. It was a time just before I returned to school and I am glad that I made the purchase.
It is an internal IDE drive and I it is included with an Iomega CDR/W and a Toshiba CDROM. It ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2001
Pros: Easy to setup and use. Reliable disks
Cons: Not everyone has one. You may have to carry the drive around. Expensive media
Summary: Due to the nature of my work (I build new PCs and deal with hardware and software of both new and older PCs every day) I certainly need some kind of device to transfer data between them. I also need a device to transfer drivers and utilities to and from ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2001
Pros: Reliable back-up. Easy installation. Swappable between USB computers.
Cons: High cost of media, compared to CDs.
Summary: Back in the mid 90's, when the size of computer files started to skyrocket, the 1.44 floppy disks just couldn't handle the audio and visual files, or anything else, that usually were eating up your hard drive space. To store them you had to get an ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 23, 2001
Pros: Small, Quick, Easy To Use
Cons: Only 100mb
Summary: I began using Zip drives back in 1996 when the best of them was a very slow parallel version. Back then it was excellent, considering CD burners cost around $500 and a blank CD could run you $15-$20 each.
Times have changed, 100mb's is not ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 22, 2001
Pros: Fast access, easy to set up...
Cons: Obsolete, expensive, expensive media...
Summary: I bought an external USB 100mb Zip drive to transport files form home to school. I like it because I don't have to hassle over burning a CD-RW or transfer files via e-mail.
If Zip would sell these things for a little less I'd recommend that ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 21, 2001
Pros: 250MB of storage, USB compatibility, sleek new look
Cons: obsolete technology, expensive media
Summary: ZIP drives have been around a long time, from way back when writing cd's on your home PC was more of just a dream. Back then, 100MB on a portable drive was very impressive. These days 100MB is nothing, and 250MB is close to nothing.
The newer ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 18, 2001
Pros: portable and reliable media...
Cons: small storage amount...high cost of media
Summary: I am currently studying at university and required a zip drive to exchange file between home and uni.
I find the drive useful, but i think that it is becoming obsolete due the the advent of cheap CD-R and the limited storage provided by each ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 7, 2001
Pros: GODS GIFT TO DESIGNERS
Cons: Limited Disk Space
Summary: I am a graphic design student, and when my school purchased ZIP Drives for all 5 computer labs, I was skeptical. Iomega wasn't the students all time favorite company by this point. The JAZ drives we had previously used were a definite sore spot, and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 7, 2001
Pros: not waiting for a burn
Cons: catridges are more pricey than CD-Rs
Summary: I do not want to examine weather or not a CD-R or a ZIP drive are one a better choice than the other. For one, I have both and like it this way - if you have to choose, read the other 55 reviews, they will give you even too many reasons to like one ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 24, 2001
Pros: much faster than a floppy, much more storage capacity
Cons: not as much capacity as a cd-r
Summary: This device comes in handy every once in a while when I want to back a few files, but overall I have to say it is not worth the money. Each disk can hold only 100mb, ( i guess now they have slightly larger capacity disks 250mb). If you want to store ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2001
Pros: Windows 2000 recognizes it on first boot! Read / Write capabilities!
Cons: Comparatively expensive media. Not Much storage space.
Summary: Good Advice:
Let me offer some invaluable advice for anyone considering purchasing an internal Zip 100 disk drive, or any of the Iomega Zip disk products for that matter. Save a few bucks, and invest in a fast CD recording / ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 6, 2001
Pros: Lightweight; attractive design; USB powered
Cons: CD ROM manual - no paper
Summary: My college professor required the purchase of a zip drive. We work on Macs at school, and at home, most of us have PCs. I didn't get it. What's the purpose of a zip drive? My desktop's CD-RW CDs hold 700MegaBytes. The zip disk? 200MeaslyBytes.
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 6, 2001
Pros: Robust, faster than CDRW
Cons: Lower capacity, lower market penetration
Summary: When it comes to removable storage it’s really about CD-R/RW versus Zip. And there is no clear winner, as it all comes down to do you know anyone with a CD/Zip drive. Obviously lots of people have CD drives and so can read CD-R/RW discs but far less have ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2001
Pros: Was good in 1999, at least a 140 Gigabyte DVD/CD-RW is only 5 years away
Cons: Not good now, competition is better, everything else includin color of the system, cost of the system, and cost of the disks, can't be read on almost all computers like a CD-RW can
Summary: 100 Megabytes of storage in mid-late '99 was great. Well now you can store 6.5 times that amount on a CD-RW and the CD-RW drive does cost a little more but the disks a lot cheaper (under a buck compared to $10 for a ZIP 100). This is only good for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 5, 2001
Pros: Easy set-up, fast transfer of files, removable media
Cons: Limited storage space
Summary: Zip drives were once the only practical removable mass storage devices. They had the convenience of a floppy disk, but stored a whopping 100 mb of data.
Well, times have certainly changed. 100 mb seems "small" by today's standards. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 4, 2001
Pros: Fast access... easy to use!
Cons: Very limited storage (100 meg disk)
Summary: My experience with the Iomega zip drive all began 2 years back with the purchase of my new 500 celeron computer. It had seemed like a great idea to buy the drive at that time for a few reasons. First of all, unlike the dated 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, zip ... read more
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