Does anyone still use Zip Disks anymore?

well i have them, stored away. for me i use about this 80% dvd's 15% cd's and 4.999% flash drives and .001% floppys (only for like firewall backups and boot disks :D) and soon once blu-ray bunrers come down 200$, it will be about 10% blu-ray :cool:
 
Dad uses them every so often, but more for archived stuff from years back. They were a decent media but with the price of optical drives/media getting so cheap, it's almost cheaper to buy a CD and toss it when you need to re-write something
 
I no longer use Zip drives, I use flash drives now. I'll wait till blue-ray burner's price drop, did you see the blue-ray dvds? They are $20 for 1 dvd on best buy.
 
I work at Boeing, and I had to go over to the area where they are storing all of the office equipment they are getting ready to get rid of. Besides all of the 22 inch CRT's, Old Dells, printers and tons of other stuff, there were about 30 old zip drives. I had to laugh when I remembered how hot they were just a few years ago. Everyone had one back then. Now they just send them off to the crusher.

You just have to love the ways things chance so fast.
 
I have an external one and one internal. (not installed) We use to use them all the time in design school. I can remember when Jazzdrives were an outrageous price and the amount of space was insane.
 
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For some odd reason, I know someone that uses them like crazy and he's in graphic design/web authoring... Haven't figured out or asked why...
 
100MBs, 250MB and 750MBs if I remember right. Also each one has their own drive and the 750MB drive wont use the 100MB discs.
 
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Had one for a while. I never used it, but my dad used it for backup (Music, MS Money, etc.). When we switched to burning DVD's, we figured out the ZIP drive was the reason my iPod Mini and iTunes would constantly freeze when connected. Some of the computers at my school still have the drive in them. Also, my mother is the finance clerk at our church and she backs up the financial info on zip disks.
 
I have 250MB one somewhere in my room. Had to get it for the multimedia class in high school. It was mandatory that every student get one in that class. Guess what? The only time we used it was the first day of class when the teacher showed us how to formate it.
 
Still have a couple of Zip Drives but havent used them in a while. I built my Mom a new computer and I think theres one still in the old Dell case. When CD Burners got popular it just killed the Zip Drive.
 
i have an IDE drive, and four 100mb disks.. I stopped using them last year..

we use them a lot in design, to take work from a place to another... they are more reliable than CD-r

but with "new" usb pendrives, they became somewhat obsolete....
 
konzerte said:
i have an IDE drive, and four 100mb disks.. I stopped using them last year..

we use them a lot in design, to take work from a place to another... they are more reliable than CD-r

but with "new" usb pendrives, they became somewhat obsolete....
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I dont think there more reliable than a cd-r, but they are more convient than a cd-r in some respects.

I always loved the clicking noise they make when you getting close to filling them up.
 
well sometimes a cd is not recognized by another drive, or there are problems with unclosed sesions, cd data being corrupted and things like that... those were more frequent on early cd drives, but today they still apperar..

also zip drives didn't need a special software to write data on them... of course, any today's operating system can write data on a cd without special soft too...

but things were different with win98 and early cd burners, zip drives used to rock.
 
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