#Zipdrives?
18 messages in this thread
Anyone hear of the new external Zipdrives?The media looks like a thick 3.5
disk but holds 100megs ( this is what i hear anyways). My friend tells me the
disks only $15. bucks and are fairly fast. Dying to find out!
TIA
Bill
Bill:
I came this close to buying one of those babies this week. I need a
really good excuse to buy one, can you offer something? <G> I wish
my tape drive would go south on me or some client would demand files
on a zip disk. The drive specs out at 29ms seek time which is
probably more than twice as slow as your hard drive but should be
lightning compared to tape or floppy. You can get the drives in SCSI
or parallel for less than $200 and a 3 pack of disks for less than
$50. For me this product is almost something I need. I have a
Syquest drive so I can get large files to the printer, I have a tape
backup so I can archive files and I've got a floppy drive for saving
small stuff.
I've been considering the same. $200 for the drive and $150 for 1 Gig
of space sounds pretty good. They (Iomega) have just announced
another faster (15ms +/- 3ms, I can't remember) drive priced around
$500 w/ 1 Gig disks; but those zip drives are just so darn cute.
Wade:
/_______________________From your message________________________\\
I've been considering the same. $200 for the drive and $150 for 1 Gig of space
sounds pretty good.
__________________________________________________________________
You are right about that. FWIW, I found a new 1260mb EIDE hard drive
for $319. I saw the tidbit on the 1 gig removable drive, now we are
talking. I think this new drive is supposed to be a bit larger than
the zip drive maybe 5-1/4" but I'm guessing. Now if we could only
get RAM prices down by an order of magnitude…
>> FWIW, I found a new 1260mb EIDE hard drive for $319. <<
Nice price; is it from a nationally available house/source?
The 1 gig Iomega drive, the Viper, is $575 external, $500 internal,
14ms seek, w/ a $100 *3.5* inch platter. Sustained transfer rates of
3.5 to 5 Mbytes/sec. (I'm quoting out of a MacLeak). Third quarter
release. Funny quote from the article: "Viper will give Syquest
fits". However it's still all on paper.
Wade:
I bought the drive from DOC (Drive Outlet Center) (708)970-4000. They have an
800 number and ad in Computer Shopper each month.
I saw another blurb on that new 1Gb Iomega Viper, sounds pretty cool and
smaller than I thought.
Bob
Thanks.
Yea, I thought the platter was 5.25" as well.
Wade,
>>> $200 for the drive and $150 for 1 Gig of space sounds pretty good. <<<
Why not Buy a DAT Drive?
The Slower (Backup at 10MB per Min.) 2Gig DAT's are now selling in the $700.
Range and the Faster (33MB per Min.) sell for around $1300…however once
you've made that purchase your Media is $9.10 that's nine dollars and ten cents
per 2Gigabyte Tape!
You can then purchase the TAPEDISK Software which allows you to read and write
to the DAT Drive as if it's a local Hard Drive.
It's like haveing a WORM Drive!
This is what we've been using and recommending to all our clients and the
payback is enourmous! The Big Upside is the Low Cost of the Media, the Amount
of informaiton that fits on the Media and the Read/Write as a Disk Drive
Ability!
The only Down side is the somewhat higher cost of the drives and it's like a
WORM Drive but I don't see that as a big issue because of all the Plus's… it
also only takes 20 seconds to format a Tape with TapeDisk.
We absolutly love this technology.
For What it's worth.
Murph'
>>You can then purchase the TAPEDISK Software which allows you to read and
write to the DAT Drive as if it's a local Hard Drive.<<
Does this software work with other tape drives i.e. QIC-80 ?
Bill – Triffet Animation Co.
William,
>> Does this software work with other tape drives i.e. QIC-80 ?<<
I bought it for it's DAT and Exabyte capabilities. They keep adding to the
list of drives it works with all the time. You may call them at 1-414-231-3333.
Tell Em' Murph' Sent Ya' <g>
Murph'
Thanks, I hadn't considered a more expensive sol'n but then I didn't realize
the tapes were so reasonable.
We love our DAT and TapeDisk Solution. Especially for throwing those really
large DPS PAR Projects on. <BG>
Murph'
Decisions, decisions… to tape or to disk. That is the question. <g>
I'll give 'em a call. Tanks!
Bill -Triiffet Animation Co.
William,
I just read an article where Compaq has joined with 3M to develop a
120MB 3.5-inch diskette that will work in existing high-density
drives, you will need one of the new drives to get full capacity. The
high-density drives will be backwards read/write compatible with the
1.44MB and 720KB disks. These drives are expected by the end of 1995.
Bill,
We bought one of these drives about a month ago, and LOVE it! We had
been using a Bernoulli 150, which was fast but tempermental…also
the disks were horribly expensive. The ZIP is not as fast, but works
extremely well…and is fast enough. Each diskette holds 100 meg,
and if pruchased in batches of 10 or so are only $15. They are about
the size of a 3.5, but about twice as thick. This is nice, since
they fit in storage compartments.
The drive installs easily, and is transportable if you wish…it's
about the size of a CD walkman.
Ours is on the net now, but we may buy another one (or two!).
Here's a copy of the release,
Iomega developing new removable drive for power users
ROY, UTAH May 15, 1995
Iomega Corporation announced it has shipped test units of a new removable
disk drive directly targeted at providing high-capacity, high-performance,
value-priced storage for "power" computer users.
The drive addresses the high-performance needs of the power computer
market such as video/audio producers, electronic publishers, CAD/CAM,
graphics users, multimedia users, desktop publishing, medical imaging, and
Fortune 1000 business users.
The company said details about the new drive, still under development,
will be released later in the year and expects shipment of the drive to begin
before the end of 1995.
Earlier this year Iomega addressed the needs of the consumer home and SOHO
markets when it began shipping its Zip drive — an easy-to-use external drive
that bundles useful Zip tools software for file management, sells for less
than $200 and uses 100-megabyte removable Zip disks that sell for less than
$20 each. The Zip drive has been widely acclaimed by press, industry
analysts, retailers and customers and has become one of the fastest selling
new products in several computer retail chains.
The company remains cautious about second quarter earnings due to the
on-going cost of development and introduction of new products. Iomega
Corporation provides personal computer information storage solutions that
help people manage their computer information — anywhere.
These solutions include the Bernoulli line of removable drives and disks,
Ditto tape backup drives and tape cartridges, and Zip drives and disks.
Iomega provides storage solutions for the small office/home office, large
business, government and education markets and are available through computer
retail stores, resellers, and major distributors. Iomega had revenues of
$141 million in 1994.
I have a Zip & a Bernoulli 230. The Bernoulli is noticably faster, higher
capacity, service bureaus have 'em & I prefer it (esp. for playback).
Scott
>> Anyone hear of the new external Zipdrives?The media looks like a thick
3.5 disk but holds 100megs ( this is what i hear anyways). My friend tells
me the disks only $15. bucks and are fairly fast. Dying to find out! <<
We have a couple here at the office/home. Makes it easy to carry
"homework" back and forth. For the price, you cannot beat it. I have
a scsi version and my partner has the parallel version so he can use
it with his laptop. The initial speed is ok, but once the directory
is in your cache things really pick up. Noticable delay first couple
of times.
I wouldn't recommend running anything off of it, but for archival and
transport purposes it's the cat's pajamas.