( 3 reviews )
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( 2 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: 03-05-2005
The other reviewers are right. The zip format is very convenient. I have been using them for years. I used to mail the 100mb disks overseas in just an envelope without a problem. Very reliable. The 750mb? Not so reliable in my experience. I had a brand-new Zip 750mb disk die on me in the last few weeks. Within a few minutes, it was so badly corrupted that MS Windows could not format or even see the disk. Hardware failure. Gone was my "convenient" back-up. As dead as the disk. And this was not the first one to die on me. (I am talking about the disk, not the drive. Without the disk, the drive is worthless). So I contacted the Iomega support people. Had to call them, because the website support sucks. Very friendly they were, but they would not replace the disk. Never mind that the disk has a five year warranty. No sir. I had to produce the proof of purchase. Well, the 750mb disk format has not even been out for five years, so that request defies logic. Who keeps the receipt for an cheap disk? Suffices to say, this is where my 10 year old relationship with Iomega ends. When I back up data, I expect the media to be reliable.
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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: 08-29-2003
The advantage of the Zip drive over a CDROM is the shorter time it takes to make a backup. CD burn programs require several minutes to make a backup. A Zip drive a few seconds - drag and drop. Yes, for an archive of files you a CDROM might be better. But if you simply want to a temporary backup (and I always backup the novel I am writing after even the smallest modification), you can't beat the speed of a Zip. Also the Zip 750's response time is much faster than the Zip 250. Hit the button and it pops out in a half second.
