What is Iomega smoking and can I have some?!

[High_Jumbllama]

They come out with the Zip 100(Atapi/Paralell/SCSI and later USB 1.1) and the Jaz (SCSI) They were incredible. With the zip, you had a highly portable removable media storage drive. With the Jaz, you had hard drive like performance in a removable media format. Unfortunately, there was the click of death and the resulting class action law suit. They came out with the Zip 250 and Clik/Pocket Zip. Both failed to atain any signifcant popularity due to the onslaught of CD-R and CD-RW technology as well as other storage mediums.

The Peerless drive is flopping horribly. Now!, they come out with the Zip 750? It read ZIP 100s, read and write zip250s and do everything to ZIP 750s. It barely offers a capacity advantage to CD-Rs and CD-RWs especially with overburn. Why a new, pathetic successor to the already floundering Zip line. Clik/Pocket zip never took off. Peerless was too little too late. WHy! WHy!


I want some of what they're smoking!



Oh and what the heck were they thinking of with Active Disk?

[Greebe]

I'm not sure High... maybe if we all eat some peyote we'll know the answer to that one

[T'kul Bastile]

Why would you want to smoke something, that in your estimation, would make you a floundering idiot?

[Kruzin]

Wierd this should come up today.

We had a zip100 crap out on us at work today.
Jane said she tried to back up some files on it, and it started making a horrible clicking noise. She unplugged it and waited for me to have a chance to check it out. By the time I got there it was totally dead. Windows would not even detect it any more, and I could not get it to eject the disk that is still jammed in it.
There are several more of these around the offices. Guess I can expect more similar failures in the future....

[Helevitia]

I had nothing but horrible buggy problems with my zip 250. Worse piece of hardware I've ever purchased. It would lock up constantly, hose my entire system, and would plain not read data off the disks sometimes. I still have the evil thing somewhere.

Dave

[Dr Mordrid]

I have had so many problems with Zip's "click of death" that I gave up on 'em ages ago, especially after CD-R came out. Not to mention that the disks are rediculously expensive

Dr. Mordrid

[SteveC]

I beta tested the Zip250 for Iomega! In return they gave me two boxed and brand new drives!

I never had a problem using the 250Mb disks, but I let them know a fair few times how crap they were at using the 100 disks. In response to our moans, they simply added a few lines in the manual saying that you may experience diffiuclties using Zip100 disks. And that was basically it!

[Technoid]

Zip drives are mecanicaly crap ingenering

[The PIT]

Also with usb multi card readers do you need a zip drive nowadays.

[xortam]

I never got attracted to the Zip or Jaz drives. I learned my lesson from using their earlier Bernoulli drives. Great HW with proven ruggedness but the media soon became prohibitively expensive relative to other storage costs. They were still selling the 44 MB disk cartridges for $100 each last time I checked in 1990. There weren't any other vendors for their media either.

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by T'kul Bastile
Why would you want to smoke something, that in your estimation, would make you a floundering idiot?

Well mini-Murcer T'kul Bastile, it's something called sarcasm.

I've had 7 Zip drives over the years. The first two (Parallel 100 and ATAPI 100) fell prey to the click of death. Now I have left a newer parallel(sp?) 100, and usb 100 as well as a paralell 250, usb 250 and ATAPI 250. Since I got a CDRW drive I've hardly used them. I've only kept them because some relatives need to get stuff off their really old computers that are breaking. I'll probably end up donating them to them to one of the schools I am interning/volunteering at right now. They still use them in a limited sense and at least they'll get some use out of them.

What I don't get is why Iomega didn't develop better pocketzip/clik drives. They had a chance at being useful due to their size if they had higher capacities. They even fit in PCMCIA cards!

[RichL]

I bought a parallel/SCSI Zip100 several years ago, when CD burners were still expensive and blank media cost a couple of quid a shot.
It worked fine on parallel, but when I plugged it into the Adaptec 2940au that was running my PCs 2 SCSI disks at the time, the whole chain crapped out. After a lot of fiddling with cables and termination jumpers /settings, I phoned Iomega tech support.
"The Parallel / SCSI Zip drive only works on SCSI as a single ended device." said the support drone.
"WHAT? You mean it will only work if its the only thing hanging off the SCSI card?"
"Yes."
"Them WTF dont you say that on the box! Its completely f***ing useless to me if it wont work as the rest of a chain."
"It didnt say it did on the box sir."

I've still got the drive and 3 unused disks sitting around somewhere.

[SpiralDragon]

well the same thing can be said of the sony MD and MD data.... urk...

any way i went through two jaz drives befor i gave up totaly on iomega.... after some time the drives would just die... no reason..... and no suport.....

[Kruzin]

Originally posted by High_Jumbllama


Well mini-Murcer T'kul Bastile, it's something called sarcasm.

hehehe
You ovbiously have no idea who this mini-Murcer is.
To him, you are a noobie (to him, 99.99% of Murcers are noobies)

Swing that axe!

[Greebe]

"mini" now that's a laugh.

T'kul aka Flangor StrongAxe is the original of us all. He is the very first admin of these here forums from the very beginning of it's inception.

btw Rog, you don't smoke Peyote (maybe that's where you went wrong