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Reaaaaallllyyy Slooooow Zip transfers...
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Hi,
My brother has an eMac running Jag, and when trying to copy to or from a usb zip drive, it is excruciatingly slow, I think he said 15 minutes for a 6 MB file, or something like that. I cannot think of any reason why. Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution?
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Its a known bug. Ever try copying from a PC formatted Zip Disk? Thats even worse sometimes.
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Another issue is the speed of a Zip 250 drive read/writing to Zip 100 disks. It's a compromise that Iomega had to make in order to maintain backwards compatibility. It takes me approximately 20 minutes to move a ~50MB file to a Zip 100 Disk. I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if it was also PC formatted!
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Yes, it is a known issue. My Zip 250 transfers to Zip 100s very slowly, too. Don't sweat it. And I didn't even know they had Zip 750s out until recently. WHat have I been missing?
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But the Zip 750 has the most horrible design flaw I've seen in a while: it can't write to 100MB disks. I have never seen a design shop that uses anything other than 100MB disks, the 250s never caught on. The 750 is bound to be a flop.
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when i have to transfer to/from zip i just restart in 9 and do it there.
it may save you as much as one WHOLE HOUR.
yes this os x zip trasnfer speed is just ridiculous.
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With the price of CD-Rs and RWs so cheap, why use zip (except you may not have a burner on your machines)?
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But the Zip 750 has the most horrible design flaw I've seen in a while: it can't write to 100MB disks. I have never seen a design shop that uses anything other than 100MB disks, the 250s never caught on. The 750 is bound to be a flop.
It can read them, though 
What good is that?
It seems to be an amazing look into the short-sightedness of Iomega when they made the zip. If you want a technology to become ubiquitous, it needs to be extendable beyond its original design without a bunch of caveats!
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Design flaw? Iomega?
Wow, never hear those two terms together 
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Everything Iomega is a huge design flaw. Back when they were Bournulli they were pretty good.
Along came Zip with all it's problems (Click of Death, unreliable media).
Then they tried Click! drives (Pocket Zip) which were crap - they werned you not to leave them in the computer for long periods of time???
Then Jaz, what a flop - unreliable media, drives, and a cost that was insane.
Now we have Zip 750, the latest incarneration of the Zip crap...Yay! 
Just about everything Iomega designs is a POS. The only good things that they sell are stuff _NOT_ made by them: Microdrives, CD-Burners, etc.
The thought of trusting them to NAS makes me shudder!!!!
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