Iomega 31714 100 MB USB-Powered Zip Drive

Product Description

The Iomega 31714 Zip 100MB USB-Powered external drive is a reliable disc drive using removable Zip Discs that can hold up to 100 MB of information per disc. You can use it for backing-up data, storing music and photo files, storing multimedia presentations, and much more. Its translucent, low-profile design allows easy use with portable and desktop computers. Works with Windows95 and later / Macintosh OS 8.6 or later

Customer Reviews:

External USB Iomega Zip Drive.......2007-05-07

What can I say, plug it in and use it. Works fine.

Iomega 31714 100 MB USB-Powered Zip Drive.......2007-03-21

The product arrived in excellent shape. Setup was a breeze and it works as expected. Nothing negative.

no worky.......2007-03-08

try as i might..everything i or anyone else ..could think of. just couldn't get this usb powered zip 100 to appear on my G-5 desk top. just need to look at some old data. had to return the item to Amazon. still have not recieved a refund. things happen.

It's done what I wanted.......2007-02-10

I bought the 100 MB external Zip drive a couple of days ago so that I could move files from an old Windows NT machine to a new Windows XP machine. The old machine has an internal 100 MB Zip drive, but no way of creating CDs or DVDs.

The external Zip drive plugs into a USB port on the new machine. Installing the software was quick and smooth, and I was able to move the files (about 1 GB total) without incident, although I had to do it in maybe 12-15 iterations. The drive was able to read about 600 KB per second.

I'm keeping the old machine around until it dies, so I'll probably use the external Zip drive occasionally to transfer files back and forth between the two machines. Since I've only had the Zip drive for a couple of days, I obviously can't speak about its long-term reliability. But if it died tomorrow, I'd still feel like I got what I wanted out of it.

However, if you won't be transfering files between a machine with USB ports and an old non-USB machine with a Zip drive of its own, I'm not sure why you'd bother with a Zip drive at all. Why not just get a portable flash drive instead?

One curious note: since I had to move the files less than 100 MB at a time, at the end of each stage, I'd remove the files I'd just moved in order to make room for the next batch of files. At first, I removed the files while the Zip disk was still in the external Zip drive. But one stage involved moving several hundred files; deleting them took the external Zip drive more than 5 minutes! The next stage also involved several hundred files, but this time I moved the Zip disk back to the NT machine's internal Zip drive before deleting them; this took just a few seconds.

Great service.......2007-01-11

The item arrived quickly and works great. I am very happy with it.

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