Iomega ZIP 250MB USB POWERED EXT

• Reviewed by: textbooksintl

  Strengths: very small, sleek.

  Weaknesses: make a weird noise at bootup, less friction (explained below)

  Overall: The very first drive I bought from iomega was the 100 mb external parallel drive. It worked well for sometime and then finally crashed with the infamous click of death problem. This one has worked well for me so far. It looks extremely smart when compared to the older drives and since it's bus powered, all that's needed is the USB cable. When the computer is booted it makes a weird noise...not such a biggie. Also, since the unit is so small and light it must be held by the hand when inserting a disk else it moves backwards...needs a bit more friction. All in all I find it to be very nice and just hope this would not die of the click of death problem.

• Reviewed by: BURCHT

  Strengths: The Iomega 250MB Zip Drive is a reliable source of media storage

  Weaknesses: Thus far I have found no weaknesses associated with this product.

  Overall: Our company has been purchasing Iomega Zip Drives for years. We purchase them with our PC's and we purchase them as an add on to our PC's. Thus far we have found them to be a very reliable storage media.