hmm, i'd have to disagree there, although maybe it's because the university i'm at bought so many to start with.
we have a pile of zips here, and that's pretty much all people use now to transfer files back and forth.
i still don't think cd's are to the point where people really feel comfortable using them, and there just seems like it's not right to burn and then toss away a cd, no matter how cheap they are.
as for a 750 MB zip, that's a bit overboard, unless it's the same price as a reg. 100 or 250 zip.
here's the thing, zips have replaced floppies for the most part where i'm at, as people are transferring around all sorts of 8 to 12 MB files. cd's are nicer once you start talking about files that large though, or external drives.
Worth of zips depends on how they're used, I suppose. They're still more convenient that CDRs for simple file transfer.
My company has mostly switched to CDRs, though, because I guess someone decided that not having a $1 CDR returned by a vendor is a lot better than not having an $11 zip returned.
But I agree. 750MB is overkill for a zip. I've used my zip at home about twice in the last six months since buying a DVD/CDRW, so I'm thinking about selling my zip 250 and using that money for a USB flash drive instead.
Zip drives aren't in wide enough use to be worth it. And a 750mb zip drive/disk makes it even more obscure. If your just using it for backups, go with cds or a portable hard drive.
But, then again it really depends on what you are going to use it for.
If Iomega did the honorable (and smart) thing and allowed third parties to make disks royalty free, Zip drives would give CD-Rs a good run for their money.
They would still make money on the drive sales. If however, they're going to try the old subsidize the razor - charge more for the blades strategy, don't bother buying one, 'cause they won't be around for long...
I got me some directCD formatted CDrw's (533MB, but I got 'em for free) and they work like a charm on my windows PC.
Between Apple's drag and drop burning and Roxio you should be able to do even better with a Mac. Properly formatted, a CDrw disc or two, should handle all your drag and drop burning/back-up/file-transfer needs. It's just like a big (but slow) floppy, well it's faster than a floppy, but still, 4X is nothing to write home about.
As long as there isn't drag and drop sessions burning for the Mac, where you can drag files off and on a CDRW as easily as you can do it on the zip, then I will feel a need to own a Zip.................
<strong>As long as there isn't drag and drop sessions burning for the Mac, where you can drag files off and on a CDRW as easily as you can do it on the zip, then I will feel a need to own a Zip.................</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can do this right now...sort of.
1. Make a .dmg
2. Put files in
3. Burn it on a blank CD (-RW) from DiscCopy.app !!!!
4. Make another .dmg
5. Put some other files in
6. Burn this .dmg again from DiscCopy.app
7. Repeat 4.-6. as many times you can until the disc is full
I still get regular use from my Zip for anything that's too big to send via email but not worth a CD: there's still something that I don't like about trashing a CD-R for 80MB of files...
I thought the original zip too skimpy, so I used the SuperDisk by Imation, since that was common in Japan. The 250 zip with firewire won me over and I'm using them in a PowerBook Pismo via VST bay drive, with 2 Cubes, and an iMac DV. I would have included one in a PowerMac tower had I ever decided to go to the Bigger is Beautiful Side. I held out and now the new PM don't have the build to order option.
I doubt I will add a 3rd standard to my Zip life; I learned from the SuperDisk which stopped selling in the US. I'll transfer via .Mac!
how long does it take to copy a 6MB file to a zip disk?
how long does it take to burn a 6MB file to a zip disk?
cd's take way longer. (gotta close that sucker out)
on top of that, what if you want to copy, delete, copy, delete etc. all off of a single drive?
i know it's stupid, but i still think it bothers people to be throwing stuff out all the time after they use it once, not to mention the pain in the ass it is to keep track of twelve cd's you've burned over the course of a week vs. one zip.
once you're talking anything over 80MB cd's start to catch up again, IMO.
i just see so many large powerpoint files being transferred that zips are by far the best option at this point.
I can't believe Iomega released this thing without the ability to read 100MB disks. What on earth are they thinking? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
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we have a pile of zips here, and that's pretty much all people use now to transfer files back and forth.
i still don't think cd's are to the point where people really feel comfortable using them, and there just seems like it's not right to burn and then toss away a cd, no matter how cheap they are.
as for a 750 MB zip, that's a bit overboard, unless it's the same price as a reg. 100 or 250 zip.
here's the thing, zips have replaced floppies for the most part where i'm at, as people are transferring around all sorts of 8 to 12 MB files. cd's are nicer once you start talking about files that large though, or external drives.
-alcimedes
My company has mostly switched to CDRs, though, because I guess someone decided that not having a $1 CDR returned by a vendor is a lot better than not having an $11 zip returned.
But I agree. 750MB is overkill for a zip. I've used my zip at home about twice in the last six months since buying a DVD/CDRW, so I'm thinking about selling my zip 250 and using that money for a USB flash drive instead.
But, then again it really depends on what you are going to use it for.
They would still make money on the drive sales. If however, they're going to try the old subsidize the razor - charge more for the blades strategy, don't bother buying one, 'cause they won't be around for long...
Between Apple's drag and drop burning and Roxio you should be able to do even better with a Mac. Properly formatted, a CDrw disc or two, should handle all your drag and drop burning/back-up/file-transfer needs. It's just like a big (but slow) floppy, well it's faster than a floppy, but still, 4X is nothing to write home about.
<strong>As long as there isn't drag and drop sessions burning for the Mac, where you can drag files off and on a CDRW as easily as you can do it on the zip, then I will feel a need to own a Zip.................</strong><hr></blockquote>
You can do this right now...sort of.
1. Make a .dmg
2. Put files in
3. Burn it on a blank CD (-RW) from DiscCopy.app !!!!
4. Make another .dmg
5. Put some other files in
6. Burn this .dmg again from DiscCopy.app
7. Repeat 4.-6. as many times you can until the disc is full
from: <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020718080952616"; target="_blank">http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020718080952616</a>;
Not as easy as Toast, but hey, it works.
1. Make a .dmg
2. Put files in
3. Burn it on a blank CD (-RW) from DiscCopy.app !!!!
4. Make another .dmg
5. Put some other files in
6. Burn this .dmg again from DiscCopy.app
7. Repeat 4.-6. as many times you can until the disc is full
from: <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020718080952616"; target="_blank">http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020718080952616</a>;
Not as easy as Toast, but hey, it works.<
You kinda reiterated my point.
As soon as I can drag and drop to and from a CDRW, Zips will live on. Zips are easy as pie...................
I doubt I will add a 3rd standard to my Zip life; I learned from the SuperDisk which stopped selling in the US. I'll transfer via .Mac!
how long does it take to copy a 6MB file to a zip disk?
how long does it take to burn a 6MB file to a zip disk?
cd's take way longer. (gotta close that sucker out)
on top of that, what if you want to copy, delete, copy, delete etc. all off of a single drive?
i know it's stupid, but i still think it bothers people to be throwing stuff out all the time after they use it once, not to mention the pain in the ass it is to keep track of twelve cd's you've burned over the course of a week vs. one zip.
once you're talking anything over 80MB cd's start to catch up again, IMO.
i just see so many large powerpoint files being transferred that zips are by far the best option at this point.
<strong>DVD and CDR. Stay away from Zip, it's dying a slow death if you ask me.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah I am inclined to think the same!
It's so much easier to use CD-R/RW media now as most people have CD burners over floppys*
Speaking of floppies, I dont know the last time I used a floppy!
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unregistered trevorM <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
have two zip drive haven't used them in tow years. High speed connections and cd buring make them useless
Not that it matters since the drive is irrelevant, but you know...