Iomega Zip 250 MB USB External Drive (PC/Mac)
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is the emerging standard for connecting anything to your computer. This state-of-the-art interface makes good on the long-touted promise of simple plug-and-play capability, moving beyond traditional limitations and annoyances of the SCSI or parallel port interfaces. Now, USB-equipped Macintosh and PCs running Microsoft Windows 98 can begin utilizing USB advantages available from the sleek translucent blue Zip USB drive.
The Zip 250 USB drive offers an ultrathin, mobile design that meets the high-capacity storage needs for both PC and Mac users. At an inch thick and weighing just under a pound, the Zip 250 USB drive can accompany the most demanding mobile computer user. Connect the drive conveniently with the industry-standard USB port. Mobile users can connect with a host-powered PCMCIA interface.
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I believe this is a better alternative to the USB drive and much better than a floppy disk drive. I don't have to worry about loosing it since it is big and it is very durable. I have one at home in my desktop and another I use at work to backup important files.
Plugged it in today, and got the Click Of Death. Drive dies, disc is stuck, and there's no way to pop it out. Argh. My Zip 250 USB sat in a drawer, unused, for about four years. It was brilliant of you to design a gizmo that has NO MANUAL EJECT. Thanks, Iomega.
Then it vomited up one of those always-delightful "Unrecognized exception" error popups, and promptly hung. The Iomega Tools installer demanded an immediate restart as soon as it completed. In any case, at $10 a pop, the Zip media format has been effectively eclipsed by writable CDs and DVDs. This is all mysterious. A new item called 'active disk' appeared in the system tray on successful restart. I never had these kinds of problems with the SCSI Zip drives. When I used this drive with an OSX system, every time I tried to eject a disk, the drive spun for over a minute before spitting out the disk. I was able to read a pre-recorded Zip disk with no problems, however, when I tried to eject the disk (using the right-click menu item), Windows flung a bunch of panicked popups, yelling at me for disconnecting hardware without going through the "safely disconnect hardware" interface it basically acted as though I'd unceremoniously yanked out the USB cable while the drive was still spinning.
There was nothing indicating it had anything to do with Iomega at all. The system hung on restart and had to be power-cycled. This is what happaned when I tried to use this drive on an otherwise stable Windows 2000 system:. The Iomega entry on the Programs menu had nothing in it but a couple of web links ('help' and 'update').
I'm using Iomega's Quik Sync back-up software and it's great to have it operating automatically in the background, without me having to remember to do it. The USB-powered version would be nice to have for running on my laptop. It's much faster than my old Zip 100 that ran on the parallel port, though the 250-USB reads Zip 100 disks with no problem (though slower than 250 disks). When I bought mine, the USB-powered version was not yet available, so mine uses an AC power adapter. Have not had any system locks, either. I've got my Zip 250-USB running on a 1Ghz Pentium 3 with Windows ME and had no trouble getting it installed.
Do you enjoy spending hours on hold waiting for someone at technical support to pick up. Do you like losing work because aback up system hasn't worked properly. Spare yourself hours of misery and much regret and buy something else, anything else but don't buy this miserable piece of crap. If so you'll love Iomega products. Do you like wasting hours reinstalling software that is filled with bugs. Do you like really slow, worthless drives that crash your computer and corrupt your data.
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