what are the latest zip drives like??

[Andrew Crook]

When I last used a zip drive it was a parallel port one 100Mb
these were to small for me and I moved over to tape.

latter I heard of the click of death problems.

a friend of mine has had some problems setting up one of these old zip
drives recently. it just refuses to work with is printer and has made his
system unstable. I though of installing a second parallel port for him (but
thought about the click of death problem).

I don't think a cd-r/ rw and some direct cd software is the right solution
for this type of user (easily confused ),Tape drive is to slow, expensive
and not direct, data key compact flash thingies I would not use as a proper
form of backup (more to carry a mobile copy of data around).

I am thinking of getting a zip750 internal atapi drive for him or the 250
version

are these any good? any known probs?.. are these now safe to use?

regards

Andrew

 

[Woodchuck]

I have had a ZIP100 USB for the last 2 years and have had no problems. Now
in the need for more external space I purchased a external USB hard drive.
This past week CompUSA offered a 120g Western Digital for $120 after
rebates.

 

[Gary Tait]

I have had a ZIP100 USB for the last 2 years and have had no problems. Now
in the need for more external space I purchased a external USB hard drive.
This past week CompUSA offered a 120g Western Digital for $120 after
rebates.

I agree, if you aren't going to use optical storage, use removeable or
portable HDD of some sort.

 

[Eliezer Guzman]

Andrew Crook wrote:

I am thinking of getting a zip750 internal atapi drive for him or the 250
version

are these any good? any known probs?.. are these now safe to use?

regards

Andrew

<snip>

Andrew,

I own a ZIP 750 and its OK for what its worth, I bought a pack of three
750 disks and recently one of them experienced the dreaded "click death
syndrome". I had the disk a total of eight months before the error
actually happened. In that time I did transfer a lot of data between
machines, roughly the equivalent of 30-50 cdr's. Now given the
equivalence between the price of a single disk, and the price of say a
50 CDR pack, is it really worth the money?

A single 750 disk will cost you $12.99 at Ubid
{http://superstore.ubid.com/is-bin/I...tion-Start?ProductID=elPAqB4CXEEAAAD2jmuyxGv_]
The cdr pack of 50 will cost you $14 at cataloguecity .com
[http://amos.catalogcity.com/cc.class/cc?pcd=2965290&ccsyn=1]. Based on
that I would say that with the CDR-pack you are likely to get more out
of your dollar. But if you also consider ease of transfer (as in data
transfer rates), the 750 is very speedy for a removable platform, so
this this makes the 750 a nice convenience. But in the end its still a
matter of personal preference.

 

[sdlomi]

When I last used a zip drive it was a parallel port one 100Mb
these were to small for me and I moved over to tape.

latter I heard of the click of death problems.

a friend of mine has had some problems setting up one of these old zip
drives recently. it just refuses to work with is printer and has made his
system unstable. I though of installing a second parallel port for him (but
thought about the click of death problem).

I don't think a cd-r/ rw and some direct cd software is the right solution
for this type of user (easily confused ),Tape drive is to slow, expensive
and not direct, data key compact flash thingies I would not use as a proper
form of backup (more to carry a mobile copy of data around).

I am thinking of getting a zip750 internal atapi drive for him or the 250
version

are these any good? any known probs?.. are these now safe to use?

regards

Andrew

Similar to a previous poster, one could easily learn to back up data on
a smaller, inexpensive, internal hd using a slide-out tray--may be cheaper
than an external USB hd. However, I'd much rather have the ext. usb-type!
s

 

[Gary Tait]

one could easily learn to back up data on
a smaller, inexpensive, internal hd using a slide-out tray--may be cheaper
than an external USB hd. However, I'd much rather have the ext. usb-type!
s

From my checking the USB HDD boxes aren't really that expensive,
especially bothering configuruing the PC with a pull-out HDD, althoug
if you lack USB or Firewire ports, you will need to add that (if
USB1.1 is to slow).

 

[Chris]

I would not bother. I would recommend a USB flash disk drive. They are
faster, cheaper, better value and can be used on any computer with USB
ports. Look into it!

Andrew Crook wrote:

I am thinking of getting a zip750 internal atapi drive for him or the 250
version

are these any good? any known probs?.. are these now safe to use?

regards

Andrew

<snip>

Andrew,

I own a ZIP 750 and its OK for what its worth, I bought a pack of three
750 disks and recently one of them experienced the dreaded "click death
syndrome". I had the disk a total of eight months before the error
actually happened. In that time I did transfer a lot of data between
machines, roughly the equivalent of 30-50 cdr's. Now given the
equivalence between the price of a single disk, and the price of say a
50 CDR pack, is it really worth the money?

A single 750 disk will cost you $12.99 at Ubid
{http://superstore.ubid.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/Dis
playProductInformation-Start?ProductID=elPAqB4CXEEAAAD2jmuyxGv_]
The cdr pack of 50 will cost you $14 at cataloguecity .com
[http://amos.catalogcity.com/cc.class/cc?pcd=2965290&ccsyn=1]. Based on
that I would say that with the CDR-pack you are likely to get more out
of your dollar. But if you also consider ease of transfer (as in data
transfer rates), the 750 is very speedy for a removable platform, so
this this makes the 750 a nice convenience. But in the end its still a
matter of personal preference.