1gig zip drives

[heehaw]

if anyone is looking for a way to move data or pictures around easily: KMart has 1gig zip drives, thumb drives or whatever you want to call em: for $10 this wk-end.
heehaw

 

[crbr]

if anyone is looking for a way to move data or pictures around easily: KMart has 1gig zip drives, thumb drives or whatever you want to call em: for $10 this wk-end.
heehaw

Multi-gig USB jump drives are indeed the way to go.

I see your point.

However, the real "zip drives" are in the catagory of 8-track tapes...

Thanks for the heads-up on Wally's-Wallet-World....


Russellville has a two- unit nuclear powered electric generating facility. Been there. Small world. You have a nice lake there too... Dardinelle, I believe?

 

[jinman]

However, the real "zip drives" are in the catagory of 8-track tapes...

Didn't Iomega call theirs a "Zip-Disk" instead of a zip drive? I know it's splitting hairs. I have three of them collecting dust.

I think it's interesting that the 1-gig zip drives have become almost giveaways because everyone wants the 2 or 4 gig ones. Even the 2-gig are dirt cheap. I paid $24 for one of those and then saw one for $19 a week later.

 

[Bird]

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, but I still have a number of new, unused 100 mg Zip disks, and this computer has the built in zip drive. They haven't been used in a long, long time, but I used to use them for my backups.

 

[gordon21]

I hate to break the bad news to you Bird, but Daniel Boone has better technology. These guys are talking about a solid state (no moving parts) storage device about half the size of a 3" pocket knife. It can hold up to 40 times what your disk can and can be inserted into any modern computer without the need for software or additional hardware.

 

[crbr]

Didn't Iomega call theirs a "Zip-Disk" instead of a zip drive? I know it's splitting hairs. I have three of them collecting dust.

I think it's interesting that the 1-gig zip drives have become almost giveaways because everyone wants the 2 or 4 gig ones. Even the 2-gig are dirt cheap. I paid $24 for one of those and then saw one for $19 a week later.

The 75 - 100 meg diskettes they used were indeed the zip disk. The Unit in the 'puter was considered the zip drive. Again, splitting hairs as such. Long by the way-side now.

I hope I have this correct... LOL..... It's been several years since I laid a hand on one....

:cheers:

 

[jdbower]

If you've got an older laptop around, they make hard drive enclosures that you can put the drive into. Downside is that they're bulky (at least compared to the USB memory sticks, they still fit into many shirt pockets), but the upside is you can now move 10's of GB around instead of just a few GB.

 

[Bird]

I hate to break the bad news to you Bird, but Daniel Boone has better technology. These guys are talking about a solid state (no moving parts) storage device about half the size of a 3" pocket knife. It can hold up to 40 times what your disk can and can be inserted into any modern computer without the need for software or additional hardware.

OK, Gordon. I'm not much of a computer geek. But I thought what you just described was called a flash drive.

 

[gordon21]

Flash drive=jump drive=thumb drive Old timers will occasionaly call them zip drive since we assumed no one actually uses the ORIGINAL ZIP drives with the disks. My ZIP drive has been sitting on a shelf gathering dust for at least 4 years. I guess it is time to toss it out. It hurts to just throw something away that you paid $150 for.

It would be a wise investment to buy one of the new thumb drives for $25 and backup up everything you have. I am pretty sure support for the old ZIP drives is over with.

Modern digital cameras take pix with high resolution and the files run 2-3 meg per pix. A thumb drive can store a couple thousand pix in high resolution. The best part about the new portable drives is that you can slip them in your pocket and take them to the kids and grandkids and share pix with them easily on their computers. With a few keystrokes, they can download dozens or hundreds of pix from the drive to their computer.

Another neat thing is to mail one to out of state relatives. That is the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to send 200 high quality pix.

 

[Bird]

Gordon, my old computer has two internal hard drives. One is used just for backups. But then I also have an external (USB connection) CD/DVD burner so about once a week, I burn another DVD with all my Quicken, photos, word processing, data base, and spreadsheet stuff, even 3 music albums.

 

[JayC]

I definitely need to get a new flash drive. I guess I am still behind the times as I am still using a 128MB flash drive.

 

[Soundguy]

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing, but I still have a number of new, unused 100 mg Zip disks, and this computer has the built in zip drive. They haven't been used in a long, long time, but I used to use them for my backups.

Back in the day i used to use zip disks for backup.. now a jump drive or thumb drive is soo much easier and cheaper.. kinda scarry at how fast storage space is progressing, after is stagnated in the 80's an early 90's or a while..

soundguy

 

[mikim]

thumb drives are so quick and easy and cheap...like a hooker....and just about as dangerous. We have 'em at my office - but I sure don't like 'em. Whenever I catch someone bringing in their personal ones I tell them I don't want their dirty little thingys in my computers. The boss backed me on this one. It's being a hard a__ about it but we've been virus free for several years and I'd like to keep it that way til I can get out. Ya just never know where it's been.....

 

[Soundguy]

I actually think they may be safer than a floppy disc as far as a virus is concerned.

As long as you set yuor system to scan removeable media.. etc.. and/or only allow data file xfer and not executables.. it really does minimize the risks.. etc..

Soundguy

 

[California]

Another alternative if your camera uses SD memory, is to buy some SD cards plus a flash/jump/thumb adapter. (SD cards are the same price as a flash drive, are smaller, and may be faster).

I have this $3 adapter and it works fine. http://www.ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA2018.htm

I also have their green-triangle adapter, which is more convenient as a SD to USB adapter. They sell adapters for other camera memory - CF etc.

This allows plenty of camera memory for a long vacation, then the cards are returned to service as usb drives carrying edited photo sets to Grandma etc when we're home.