As the tile and Poll suggest, how many people actually use these. They used to be the thing i would use most for 6th form work a few years ago, but now have CD-RW's at 24x with Mt. Rainier, and USB Pendrives taken over?
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As the tile and Poll suggest, how many people actually use these. They used to be the thing i would use most for 6th form work a few years ago, but now have CD-RW's at 24x with Mt. Rainier, and USB Pendrives taken over?
they lick balls :) who wants a fancy floppy disk that costs some stoopid amount that holds the same amount of data as a 50p CD
They are useless now, with DVD+RW at £60 why would anyone want a zip drive
I used to have one, but they are just as likely to corrupt as a floppy, i moved over to a usb disk and now my zip drive moulders in the attic of no return.
yes cost wise they are no! no! but if you still have one like the usb i have they can come in handy won`t buy any more disks, way over top.
I still use floppy disks, but uni seems to have some sort of fetish for the things.
Never bought one myself - have always been a fan of CDRW.
have a zip drive, used it at college a few times to transfer files back home. I wouldnt buy another one though, expecially with DVD writer drives out now.
I'm sorry, but that is SO wrong. I used to use them regular - this one disk got such a battering - and after a year of use it was 97% disk integrity, 100% format integrity. Now those stat's are pretty useless - but needless to say, it never failed me.Quote:
Originally posted by mgh0
I used to have one, but they are just as likely to corrupt as a floppy
However, there is no use for them now, with t'internet, CD/DVDRW and USB drives.
Perhaps I had a particularly faulty batch but I lost important work on several occasions due to zip disk corruption. Well not really lost but its a pain when you get home and the files you copied at uni are unreadable.
If floppy disc's are the Cassette Tape of the PC world, zip's are the Minidisc's.
Nice idea, but hardly any uptake....
some n00b payed 20 quid for my old internal 100mb one not long ago on ebay :p
yeah they suck
I can tell you that this would have been down to the drivers - they were sucky, particularly if you had older ones, or used drives with differing drivers.Quote:
Originally posted by mgh0
Perhaps I had a particularly faulty batch but I lost important work on several occasions due to zip disk corruption. Well not really lost but its a pain when you get home and the files you copied at uni are unreadable.
Still, I had admin rights at my secondary school, so I used to go around applying all the updates I needed, lol. I even upgraded the RAM in the computer I used - using my own RAM (old) from home.
That's quite sad actually, I would keep quiet about that if I were you :pQuote:
Originally posted by unts
I had admin rights at my secondary school, so I used to go around applying all the updates I needed, lol. I even upgraded the RAM in the computer I used - using my own RAM (old) from home.
I bought an 100mb external zip drive a couple of years ago. I am still using it now for file transfers. As I don't have a internet connection at home, I use it to transfer graphics drivers etc that I have downloaded at work to my home pc.
I have one at home from when I used to support them. Was a nightmare as we were not allowed to acknowledge the "click of death" which was a major problem they had with the heads misaligning and chewing up disks. In the USA there was a successful class action suit brought against Iomega for negligence leading to data loss or some such charge. There is a small box that collects the graphite that lubes the heads and each time the head disengages it cleans itself on the way back into a small box that has only an entrance and no exit, eventually this box fills with graphite after a lot of use and ...click....click....click. People used to ring up and play a wav of the click over the phone and we used to have to RMA, took a lot of grief in that job...anyhoo, CDR has killed them.
Sad that I had admin rights, or that I was the only one who could fix the problems they had there? :D Seriously, I am still the only person who can get one of their SCSI scanners installed - lucky for them that I live directly accross the road.Quote:
Originally posted by acidrainy
That's quite sad actually, I would keep quiet about that if I were you :p