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Any info on Iomega's 750 Zip drive?
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Saw the info on the German 'Applebits' site today about the upcoming Iomega 750 Zip drive - supposedly around US $200.
Anyone know anything more about this?
My 250 Zip drive won't eject my Zip disk, can't figure out how to take it apart other than break it - and am facing having to get a new one.
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Hi
A friend of mine got here in Germany some info from Iomega. I haven't read all info. All I know yet is
- It will come.
- 5 years warranty on discs.
- The device will have USB and Firewire (!) connection
Looks pretty interesting to Cube owners like me who still have no CD burner :-)
Anything special you want to know?
Greetings
cUBe
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While I know not to expect super fast hard drive speeds from an Iomega Zip drive, I hope they can at least pick the speed up a little bit. In this day and age zip disks seem so pokey. Then again, my cable modem connection today is faster then the old floppy drives from the macs back in the day.
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All I know about it is that iomega will continue to charge very high costs for the monoploy they have on disks. But a CD burnder and pay $0.40 for a 700 meg CD that anybody can use.
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I think the Zip line is slowly fading. The 250 never caught on because the much cheaper, higher capacity (not to mention more universal) CDRs were just becoming huge. CDRs are so widespread now, that I don't see the Zip 750 having any impact at all. Oh, and those new-fangled DVD burners won't help the Zip's cause much, either 
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About 5 years ago iomega had the monopoly with the zip 100. They could have made the Zip the next floppy and have it hang around for the next 20 years. The problem is iomega kept charging $15 per disk and then the CD-R came along. In 3 years the zip will be compleatly gone along with iomega.
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Iomega is grasping at straws, if they are indeed coming out with a 750Mb Zip! It's too late! Most machines today have a CD burner in them; why would I buy another drive? Anyone remember the Imation LS120 floppy two years ago? They weren't around long, were they? The 750 Zip is another answer to a question that hasn't been asked! It's no wonder Iomega has gone through five CEOs in three years!
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Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
About 5 years ago iomega had the monopoly with the zip 100. They could have made the Zip the next floppy and have it hang around for the next 20 years. The problem is iomega kept charging $15 per disk and then the CD-R came along. In 3 years the zip will be compleatly gone along with iomega.
I wanted zip 100 to become the next floppy, but it's too late now. I will continue to use my 250 MB drive, but there's no way I'm buying a 750 MB zip drive.
Heheh. My 9.4 GB (double-sided) DVD-RAM discs are US$10 each. I don't expect DVD-RAM to be widely adopted any time soon because of the cost, but then again, a DVD-RAM drive costs less than US$300 (compared to $200 for the 750 zip), and burns DVD-Rs too. It's too bad, since DVD-RAM is built from the ground up as a reliable rewritable format for data, and it happens to be great for video as well. (Check out some of the Panasonic DVD players.)
I agree that CD-R is becoming the norm, but I really hope that CD-RW doesn't become the next floppy replacement. Even with Mt. Rainier support, I just don't trust CD-RW. (To me, Mt. Rainier is just making the best of a technology which isn't suited for this purpose.)
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if the 750mb zip disks are 10 dollars, maybe, MAYBE it would catch on and be successful.
as it is, i pay pennies for a CD-R that i sometimes burn a single file to, use for a day or so, and throw away.
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Doh! Didn't notice that. So that drive would essentially make all my 100 MB discs useless. Well, I guess that's another reason to stick to my 250 MB zip drive (and 4.7 GB DVD-RAM drive).
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Originally posted by Eug:
Doh! Didn't notice that. So that drive would essentially make all my 100 MB discs useless.
Yup and everyone I know has 100 MB disks. You and one other person are the only ones I know with 250 meg drives.
Who knows what the write speeds are on 250 disks on the 700 drive are either. The 250 drive writes half the speed on a 100 meg disk.
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