Disk drives and storage media - the Iomega Zip 250

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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2009

A demonstration of the Iomega Zip 250 disk/drive. It was popular in the 90s and in the early 2000s.

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  • what is that grinding noise, please tell me it aint the drive, its the camera being moved across the table, i have just bought one of these, it looks cool, waiting for a disc to arrive

  • @Jaqshit

    The grinding noise is just the camera sliding across the table. Zip disks are fun to play around with, but I don't recommend that you actually use them to store data. The zip250 drive in this video has failed to read several disks before, and I've lost data because of it.

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  • 250?! You could fit a LOT of Monsquaz on there!

  • Awesome, impressive.

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  • @dusthillguy If I find you a reliable 750, will you use tape on a disk on this in TAR on linux to back up your stufft?

  • I thought this thing was amazing. I was in my schools computer lab when I first noticed the external drives and the people running the lab looked at me like I was a retard when I asked about them. Bought a couple of disks and was blown away by the storage. It seems they just came out to near the common use of USB storage. but man they were great.

  • Were these drive backwards compatible with the older 100 MB disks? I think my school may have had a few of these newer units, I know they had the larger ice blue 100 MB units.

  • The Zip drive had lots of potential

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