Zip drives

hertz

Hi there, Im a new user to this site, just wondering if I was to get an internal zip drive would a 100meg disk work on 250meg drive??

chernobyl

it sure would, but why zip, go for a cd burner, like the plextor 24/10 TA.

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hertz

Plexitor?? Zip drives are more efficient, even though they cant hold that much.

elexes

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by hertz:
Plexitor?? Zip drives are more efficient, even though they cant hold that much.

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efficent ... how u work that one out ????
cdr's are about .25p per cd . how can that be not efficent ?? + they hold up to 700megs and ppl are now telling me i can get 800megs .

zip disks are 250 megs and cost about ... think its 9 pounds for 1 .

_CreeD_

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by hertz:
Plexitor?? Zip drives are more efficient, even though they cant hold that much.

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Not really, Zip media costs much more, holds less, is slower and is more restrictive (in that not everyone has zips).
But Im afraid I dont know the answer to the initial question, but Id imagine they're backward compatible.

flamegrill

they are backward compatible. but 100mb zip disks are very slow in 250 drives.
we in college had 250 ide zip drives and u could copy a whole 250 disk in a few minutes compared to about 30-40 mins to a zip100.

elexes will back that up im sure

[This message has been edited by flamegrill (edited 30-07-2001).]

WhiteWashMan

yeah, zip 100 will work in zip250 drive.
i actually like zip as its nice and handy.
since i dont use my zip drive to get deadlines, im not to worried about data transfer and id like to keep my cd-r's for stuff i want to keep, zip is handy for transporting donkey pr0n and downloaded apps and patches about

Gunn4r

I would have to go with an earlier post, why zip? go cdr!

podgeen

if you downlaod something in college/work and want to take to your pc (which has no net access)
its not much use saying well i have a cd burner at home...

ConUladh

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by podgeen:
if you downlaod something in college/work and want to take to your pc (which has no net access)
its not much use saying well i have a cd burner at home...</font>

Not much use saying you've a zip-drive at home either

That's an argument for an external zip drive, can just as easily get an external cd burner (might be slightly bulkier but still)

Chubby

All dell and gateway machines people are likely to use at work has internal zip drives as standard these days. So having a zip drive is very convenient and they are cheap anyway. And there's no reason why you can't have both a zip drive and cd-writer.

PhilipMarlowe

Both have their uses...
Like I often do some dreamweaver ultradev stuff at work and at home, so It's often handier to just have the sites on a zip disk and then I can work on them from wherever.. because they would be often changing and stuff, I find the zip handier, though I do have both zip drives and cd writers in work and at home...
..plus, a zip disk fits in yer pocket...
...or something™

elexes

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we in college had 250 ide zip drives and u could copy a whole 250 disk in a few minutes compared to about 30-40 mins to a zip100.

elexes will back that up im sure

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u rember the start of the year with the win 98 pc's we were on 5 for a hour splitting up 700 megs of stuff . wish one of em had a burner then we could of done it in seconds instead of waighting haf the fu<ken day for them

also zip disks can be handy . at times . but when i was in the collage i burned all the stuff i wanted to transfer onto cd's

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[This message has been edited by elexes (edited 31-07-2001).]

Victor

Can you edit / re-write the CD?

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Kali

damn I'd love to see these writers that burn in seconds, they sound excellent