Iomega 31653 Zip 250 MB USB-Powered Starter Kit with 3 250 Disks

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 11.7 x 15.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005B6TT
• Item model number: 31653
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 17, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Zip 250 MB USB-Powered Drive Starter Kit from Iomega includes an ultrathin, portable SuperFloppy drive and three Zip 250 MB disks. Providing high-capacity removable storage for PC and Mac computers, the Zip 250 MB drive comes with a USB cable that transmits both data and power; no external power source is needed. At 1-inch thick and weighing just under a pound, the Zip 250 USB drive is easily transported.

Compatible with most major operating systems, standard Zip 100 MB disks, and all 250 MB Zip disks, the Zip 250 MB USB drive comes with a one-year limited warranty. Iomega offers a 10-year limited warranty on the Zip U250 MB disks.

Product Description

The solution was so simple, so complete, and so needed when the 100MB Zip drive first came on the scene, that it's no wonder the Zip drive has earned a rock-solid reputation in the PC world as the preferred way to save, backup and collect your important files. Now, the 250MB version of the classic 100MB blue Zip drive is available, extending the Zip product family and the technology that's meeting the needs of the digital age. In addition, the amount of digital information is skyrocketing! Consider the size of even basic office application files, presentations, digital music, scanned family photos, digital video, tax files, financial records, not to mention the millions upon millions of web pages packed with information. It can be overwhelming.From all these choices, you'll pick what's valuable to you. You'll create and save. You'll download, and piece together a growing collection of content that's important to you. Your Zip 250 drive should serve as the safe deposit box for your library of PC files. Easy to duplicate and backup, rugged, reliable Zip disks can protect your data from hard drive crashes and even physical computer theft. And how about flexibility? The Zip drive detaches easily and goes where you go. Light and compact, the 250MB Zip drive can be the traveling person's complete solution, attachable to virtually any PC in the world. So go ahead, give your files room to grow. And give yourself the flexibility, transportability and reliability wrapped up in the 250MB Zip drive. You won't regret it.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Iomega Does it Again!, August 12, 2001

By	J. Morgan "joelmor" (Millburn, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Iomega Zip 250 USB-Powered Starter Kit is excellent and a great value. The new powered zip drive is a breeze to install. Just load the software, attache the cable, reboot, and wha-la!! The drive installed immediately on my Win98SE Gateway laptop, with Win98 recognizing the drive and loading its drivers immediately. It is intuitive to use with the Iomegaware 2.8 software (the primary zip application) and creates another drive in your computer. You can drag and drop to your heart's content! I found no difficulty with compatibility at all, as did one reviewer - but perhaps going from PC to MAC or vice versa (as he/she apparently did) does cause problems. The only minor drawback I see is that it is a little noisey. I don't even notice that its particularly slow using older zip 100 disks, but I'm comparing it to a zip 100 parallel - now that's slow! Great product!!

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Zip 250 MB USB-Powered, December 12, 2002

By	S. Livingston (Newport Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Product worked well for about 6 months. Eventually it got slower and slower until it no longer would read any diskettes. Called the company and they said the drive was out of warranty and would cost $80.00 plus tax and shipping to fix it. I only had the drive for about 14 months and didn't even use it very much. IOMega refused to make any type of concession. Well they just lost a customer over their cheap dealings.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ZIP 250MB Starter - 3 U250 Disks not included, January 2, 2003

By A Customer

This starter kit doesn't contain the U250 disks (10 year guarantee), but the regular 250 MB zip disks (5 year guarantee). I am sending 2 kits back today. Iomega quit making the U250 Zip disks. Someone at Amazon knows about the problem, but the website has not been updated. Don't waste your time !