Customer Reviews

Iomega PC-Formatted 250 MB Zip Disks (4-Pack, Sku 11066)

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Though I hear people complaining that Zip disks are corruptable and break easily, I've never had a problem with them. I'm a student and I've used Zip disks since high school and never once have they gone bad on me. I've used them to store simple Word files to large computer-generated images and I find them a convieniant way to store big amounts information you don't want eating up valuable space on your hard drive. CDs may be cheaper to buy, but with a CD-R once you put information on, you can't edit what's on the disk, and CD-RWs are a tad bit more expensive, plus CDs scratch more easily and one bad drop onto a kitchen floor can crack them if you're not careful. I think ZIP disks are the best way to go.

I can't begin to tell you how many 3 1/2 x 5 floppy disks I have gone through. Too many times where I had a big project and I couldn't save it on one disk. My high school Spanish 4 final exam project was on 5 small floppy disks!! 5! I started using a zip drive and it was so much easier. As well as I don't have to worry about it not fitting because I have 250MB to work with instead of 1.44MB.

I did get a new computer and had a CD-RW drive installed on it. That was going to be my new way out but Fitchburg State College computers only have CD-ROMs so that was no help. I'm glad I still have my zip drive since now I use it more than ever.

A word of advice if you are buying a new zip drive. Get a USB capable zip drive. Stay away from the parallel port model. That one was a piece of junk. If you want to save wire space Iomega made a USB-powered model as well.

I was introduced to zip discs when taking some computer classes about 5 years ago. At the time, I didn't even HAVE a CD burner, but found a deal on a zip drive. They are basically beefed-up floppies, and as most of the things I need to back up are documents in progess, it's easy to regularly copy items over to a zip disc. I've been using the same three for several years and have never had a problem, and I always recommend them to friends, but it does seem that CDs and now DVDs are more popular. DVDs may have more space but for text or html docs that need frequent editing, zips are much better suited for my needs.

I've use zip disks for about a year now. Have to admit that at least i haven't had to worry about scratching them up like CDs but they're not all that dependable when transferring from computer to computer. The only reason i really used them was because I had to for my multimedia class in college. They only equipt a few of their computers with CD Burners and most have Zip Drives. Out of the 5 zip disks i used, 2 of them had problems which have caused me to spend extra time redoing corrupt files for class. While they work pretty well if u want to be able to carry some files around with you in your pocket or just toss it in your backpack, i dont recommend using zips to transfer your work between many computers such as for computer labs. USB ThumbDrives for me. They are solid state, fast, and dont corrupt as easily if at all.

Really weird. I bought a USB 250MB disk drive kit because the school computers have zip drives. I've been using the same two 250 MB disks for about 2 years now, and they've worked fine. I used it to transfer files between school (WinXP) and my home computer (Linux).

I think CDS are great for backups, but not for file transfers. Even CDRWs aren't good for that since you have to copy all the files to your PC, blank the disk, and write the files back to update the disk. Sure we have those UDF formatted CDRWs that work like any other storage device, but THAT is unrealiable, and WinXP doesn't even support it by default.

Memory sticks, hmm, they are compact, but they use EEPROM, which means that you are limited in the number of times a memory location can be erased. CDRWs suffer from a similar erase limit, but I've had the same CDRWs for many years, and they still work.

I think the zip 250 disks are great, though I wish they were a bit cheaper.

I have used Iomega Zip since the early days of parallel Zip 100. As an IT Professional, I need my portable storage to be fast, convenient and 100% reliable. Unfortunately, the USB Zip 250 and 750 drives I possess are none of these things! The disks corrupt often and catastrophically - it is really frustrating, as the potential flexibility and convenience of this format is great.

Go the CD-R or CD-RW route, or even better, use something solid-state, but don't buy this product.

Iomega disks have to be the worst form of storage media ever created. They are easily corruptable. I can't tell you the number of disks I've had to throw away because they have died on me. They've destroyed projects that I've saved on them. Projects that were unretrievable because all of a sudden the disk cannot be read by the computer or even worse freezes the computer.

On top of all this, Iomega disks are way too expensive for being such a bad product. I even had to ask an Iomega technician what I was doing wrong. After going over possible scenerios of what I've might of done, we both concluded it wasn't me but indeed there was something wrong with the disks.

My advice is to stay away from Iomega disks and all other Iomega products and go with CD-RW disks of any brand. They store more info, are much cheaper and are much more reliable.

I own an Iomega Zip 250 drive, and I used it... for about a week.

I thought it would be great to back-up web sites, and to transfer files between my computers at home, but then I just found it easier to spend the money on a 4 port networking hub and a good CD writer.

Zip drives are nowhere near as dependable as a CD-R or RW, and CDs cost less money, plus Cds hold more information.

I work at a printing company, and do a lot of freelance web work, so I get a lot of different types of media, and I have to say that if everyone just bought a CD writer, it would make life a lot easier.

This is still the most convenient way to back up files used on a pc. Word files and Excel files are easy to backup. It even backs up quicken files.

Had a hard time locating, after my search thought to look on Amazon and there it was, was great to locate. Should be thinking about checking there if Staples locally doesn't have