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Iomega launch larger Zip

  • 23-08-2002 10:37pm
    #1
    Lemming
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    Article found at PC Pro

    Friday 16th August 2002
    Iomega launch larger Zip
    [MacUser] 11:42

    Iomega has announced a 750Mb Zip drive.

    The new device is capable of reading and writing at 7.5Mb/sec, equivalent to a 50x cd burner and more than twice the speed of a Zip 250. It is capable of reading and writing 250Mb Zip disks, but it can only read the original 100Mb versions.

    The drive is currently only available in a USB 2.0 version. USB 2 devices are compatible with USB 1.1 ports, but performance will be restricted to the very much slower USB 1.1 levels. The Firewire version will be launched at Apple Expo Paris in September, and will be available soon after.

    Pricing in the UK is around £170 for the USB version, which is compatible with OS 8.6 upwards as well as Windows. A three pack of the higher capacity disks sell for £25 excluding VAT, on Iomega's Web site.
    In contrast, three packs of the company's older Jaz disks can be found as cheaply as £20 excluding VAT from Cancom's Web site.


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  • #2
    sceptre
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    IMHO

    Too little, too late.

    They should have made this move a few years ago at around the time they developed the 250MB zip. Current cost of CD/CDRW media still makes it a somewhat expensive way to store data.

    One of the major groups of buyers will still be college students as the colleges continue to pop zip drives in theie machines. Depends on how many of the unis have moved from having 100MB drives in older machines though, given that the new drives can't write to the old 100MB discs. For example, UL has about 50/50 100/250MB drives. Anyone there who bought one of the new drives would have real problems - either be limited to using only the 250MB-equipped machines or not buy the new drive.

    So, about time, but who really cares?


    (thanks for the info Lemming btw)


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