Iomega Zip Disks

[Buleste]

I still use Zip diskd to transfer between Amiga and PC. Especially as anything over that 96MB limit should be on a CD anyway. My Miggy isn't connected to the web so any D/L's i make are on my PC and usually they are small so a ZIP disk is perfect.

[Stephen Coates]

Don't use them much now, but I still have zip disks with stuff on, and an IDE zip drive.

I aggree that they can be alot more conveniant than other storage methods.

I do tend to use my Jaz drive quite a bit with Macs, as both my disks are Macintosh formatted, so I use it to backup and transfer data between Macs.

[Harrison]

I completely forgot about Jaz drives. Those were popular around the same time with video editors as the large size was idea for backing up video projects. Sadly the Jaz drives and disks were too expensive at the time to really take off as a mainstream format.

Do you all think that disk based technology is now all but dead? Now that we have ever increasing optical disc formats for long term fixed storage, and solid state memory cards for quick file transfers the need for removable disk based storage is all but gone.

[Submeg]

Hmm yea, using cd's is not that good, they easily get damaged. I back up stuff on my external HD, but that could always crash, which would suck. What is the biggest size disk you can get??

[Demon Cleaner]

I used a lot of Zip disks and still have about 10 of them, although I'm not using them anymore. I still have an internal and an external Zip drive in my PC with the Catweasel controller. Mainly there's old emulation stuff on them. I also had a laptop which had an integrated Zip drive, which was removable, and you could insert a normal floppy drive into the slot.

[Harrison]

What is the biggest size disk you can get??

Largest Zip Disks were 750MB. These were the last drives made and quite rare compared to the most popular 100MB drives.

iomega also made a few newer removable drive systems, but most are based around HD technology rather than floppy drive technology (as the Zip was). If you are interested in finding a secure removable disk then the later drives such as Rev and Clik are worth you looking at.

[Submeg]

Hmm, sounds interesting I worry about my iPod library going down and having to reenter all my cds

[Harrison]

I've been using an iPod Nano recently (girlfriend's old one) and have managed to completely avoid needing to use iTunes. I've instead been using Media Monkey and it works perfectly. It detects the iPod being connected, showing the device with full control over the contents, and you can then just copy songs to and from the device using Media Monkey. Nice and easy, and Media Monkey is much nicer to use than iTunes ever will be. It's also easy to back up its database.