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Product Description

Storage ZIP 250MB USB External

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Now it's even easier to take your Zip drive around town. With its USB cable, which provides both data and power, the Zip 250 MB USB-powered drive does not need an external power source. Not only is the new Zip 250 MB USB-powered drive the most portable storage solution out there, but it's also great-looking and easy to carry. At only nine ounces, you can take it anywhere and everywhere. And, the sleek new design will have you showing it off to all your jealous friends. Powered by a USB cable, it's easy to connect (just plug it in) and easy to launch (no rebooting). The new 250 Zip Drive is compatible with most major operating systems and all Zip 100 MB and 250 MB Zip disks.

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Product Dimensions

7 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches

Item Weight

12.8 ounces

ASIN

B000058EGT

Item model number

31310

National Stock Number

7025-01-494-2355

Customer Reviews

4.0 205 ratings

4.0 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#6 in External Zip Drives

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Date First Available

September 29, 2006

Manufacturer

Iomega

Language

English, French, Spanish

Warranty & Support

Product Warranty: For warranty information about this product, please click here

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4 out of 5

205 global ratings

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Customers say

Customers like the performance, ease of use, service, and condition of the computer drive. For example, they mention it works well, is easy to set up and use, and is reliable. Some appreciate the backup, and compactness. That said, opinions are mixed on quality and USB.

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59 customers mention43 positive16 negative

Customers like the performance of the computer drive. For example, they say it works well, is easy to use, and has no problems. Some say it's trouble free and works with Windows XP.

"...However, the product has been trouble free so far, I've had it a couple of months, and I would recommend it...." Read more

"...I use it on the Mac side and it works well. Also useful for transferring files between the Mac and a PC...." Read more

"...Drive would chatter loudly and only seldom display contents of the disk after many attempts.I eventually discovered my problem...." Read more

"...Its a good, fast, drive, but if power is a problem, then use it primarily for archival purposes - transferring your active work to/from your laptop..." Read more

11 customers mention11 positive0 negative

Customers find the computer drive easy to set up and use. They say it was easily installed on Windows XP and opens zip disks. They also say it connects easily and completes without a hitch. Customers also mention that copying and writing are easy using Windows Explorer.

"...Installation was straight forward and completed without a hitch...." Read more

"...Using Windows Explorer, copy and write was easy. And Amazon had it in stock and shipped it in a few days." Read more

"So it was easy to connect the drive to my pc and i immediately started copying zip-100 drives...." Read more

"...It was easily installed on Windows XP and opens zip disks, but although it installed on my Windows 2000 machine it won't open any zip disks." Read more

11 customers mention11 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the service provided by the computer drive. They mention that the service is reasonable fast, quick, and pleased with the timing. Some customers also mention that it reads faster than it writes.

"...The new drive appears to be much faster--which is certainly a "plus"--and there is also the absence of one ac adapter plugged in to the surge..." Read more

"...I give it a four star cause it writes slow but it reads faster then it writes and its compatibility deserves five." Read more

"...Its a good, fast, drive, but if power is a problem, then use it primarily for archival purposes - transferring your active work to/from your laptop..." Read more

"Sturdy and reasonably fast. Was able to transfer a lot of data stored on Zip disks to archive storage without difficulty." Read more

7 customers mention5 positive2 negative

Customers generally like the condition of the computer drive. They say it's reliable, sturdy, and a good product from a reliable manufacturer.

"...It's much faster and reliable." Read more

"Sturdy and reasonably fast. Was able to transfer a lot of data stored on Zip disks to archive storage without difficulty." Read more

"...that the ejection mechanism was made out of the flimsiest and most brittle plastic I have ever seen -- like the mechanism was designed to break...." Read more

"...Compared to a thumb drive it is obsolete but more reliable." Read more

5 customers mention5 positive0 negative

Customers like the backup of the computer drive. For example, they mention it's great for quick backups, simple, and helps them keep track of business.

"...The drive makes backing up work very simple and I wouldn't dare work without one, or a similar product." Read more

"...This is a simple way of backing up my accounting data. I tried a hard drive but found it to be difficult when it tried to do automatic backups...." Read more

"...It has served me well and helps me keep track of business whichever computer I use." Read more

"Great for quick backups.. You can get a lot of things on these disks, so I like to use them for long term storage..." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the compactness of the computer drive. They say it takes up very little space and is easy to place on a crowded desk.

"...to the externally-powered comparable Zip-250 USB, this drive is smaller and lighter - not even counting the power brick...." Read more

"...It also takes up very little space. I also enjoy the space-saving storage of its floppy drive sized media. Overall - a great buy!" Read more

"new unit is smaller than the old one, handles both my older 100MB discs as well as 250MB discs. Also, no separate power supply required!..." Read more

"The Iomega is easy to place on my crowded desk. Runs like a charm and provides another means for protecting my data. It is quick, and I use it often." Read more

20 customers mention13 positive7 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the computer drive. Some mention it's a very good purchase, worth the money, and a nice product that fills an important need. However, others say that it won't open any zip disks, it'll break, and is incompatible with Windows 7.

"...It's worth the money if you want to look up pics you may have forgotten about." Read more

"The 250 MB Zip drive is a nice product and fills an important need. But I'm replacing one that died after about 3 years...." Read more

"...I could not access my zip tapes or eject the tape." Read more

"...Therefore I purched this one and it works perfectly. It was a very good purchase." Read more

5 customers mention3 positive2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the USB of the computer drive. Some mention it's powered directly from the USB cable, with no separate power supply required. However, others say that it works fine but does not come with a USB or power cord.

"...I've used the same disk since I bought the drive. It's always plugged in and runs quietly (sort of)...." Read more

"The drive works fine, but it's not the USB-powered version. It must be plugged into 115V AC, so some misleading advertisement here." Read more

"...Also, no separate power supply required! It's powered directly from the USB cable!" Read more

"product came with no usb or power cord. Was able to find a power cord but device just kept clicking...." Read more

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BillJ

Good product

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2007

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I'm a long time user of Iomega zip drives. My first computer had an internal 250MB zip drive installed in it. Over the years I've built up quite a collection of zip disk with files stored on them. I bought the external zip drive so I would still be able to access all of those files with my new computer.

(...) My new PC uses Windows Vista as the OS, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was no need to install the driver that was supplied with the zip drive. Windows Vista knew what to do with it soon after I plugged in the USB cable.

The external version is noisier then the internal dive I used for so many years, and it also takes longer to write to, or read files from it. However, the product has been trouble free so far, I've had it a couple of months, and I would recommend it. There is newer technology out there that is both faster, and has a greater storage capacity, but the 250MB zip drive has performed the task I bought it for with no problems.

3 people found this helpful

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Ann McC

Worked great right out of the box!

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2013

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Does anyone even use zip drives anymore? The media disk that came with it only has 250 mb of memory, which when I bought this in 2002, was a LOT of storage. I have a few other zip disks, as well, filled with data. With flash drives able to hold TBs (or more!) of data these days, the only reason you would need a zip drive now is if you had stored data on a zip disk, and wanted to access it. Luckily I kept my zip drive, as I had used it to store genealogy research on a zip disk back then, and now I've got family wanting to see the info I found. So the Zip drives do come in handy if you've got data stored on media that only these drives can access. You can either transfer saved data to a newer computer with more storage space, a flash drive, or if no zip drive is available, take them somewhere and pay to have the data transferred to updated storage media. 11 years later, when I pulled it out of the big box of old tech toys, the Iomega Zip Drive still works like a charm!

3 people found this helpful

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Joseph Fang

You won't let me enter just a star rating

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022

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You won't let me enter just a star rating

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Dan Mahanay

Iomega Zip 250 (USB powered) external drive

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2009

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This product was purchased to upgrade from an earlier USB ac-powered version (1.0). Installation was straight forward and completed without a hitch.

I encountered a problem with the new drive reading disks previously formatted on my old system. Drive would chatter loudly and only seldom display contents of the disk after many attempts.

I eventually discovered my problem. My old system was a FAT 16 and my new computer system is a FAT 32. I hooked up both old and new Zip drives to my computer with appropriately formatted disks in each one. I then explored the data on the FAT 16 formatted disks and then saved the data to the new FAT 32 Zip drive.

Everything is now working fine and I expect the new drive to perform as rock-solidly as did the old ac-powered unit. It will be used as a backup until all previously saved data has been converted to FAT 32.

The new drive appears to be much faster--which is certainly a "plus"--and there is also the absence of one ac adapter plugged in to the surge protector!

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2015

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Tried to load this on 3 different machines each running a different OS. Only one OS (Win VISTA) recognized the device but I could not do anything. I could not access my zip tapes or eject the tape.

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GracieLou731

Junk - Purchase a different storage/backup media if you can/lousy support

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2009

Verified Purchase

Update to my review below (7-3-2010): I bought this zip drive a year ago and just recently got around to copying all my zip disk data to a different media (flash drive). I copied about 25 zip disks and as I inserted the last disk to copy, it started making a clicking noise and wouldn't read my disk. I did some research and found out that people call the clicking noise the "click of death," meaning the zip drive has broken! The good news is that unlike my experience below, I was able to get my disk out of the drive. Below is my review from over a year ago. I stand by it my statement to buy and use a different storage or backup media.
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Like some of the other reviewers, I bought the original 100MB zip drive in the late 90s, which featured a serial port or parallel port (not sure which one). It was awesome.

But then a few years later I got a new computer that didn't have the port I needed to connect the device. IOmega told me they didn't have or recommend any adapters and that I'd have to buy a new zip drive. So I purchased the IOmega 250MB USB drive.

I didn't use it much at all. Maybe 10 times?? I got it out the other day to download some stored files and I got all sorts of errors. Then the device wouldn't eject my disk. I looked on the Iomega support site and followed their troubleshooting tips to no avail. The site said if none of the tips worked to call support. I did, and since my unit was out of warranty, I had to pay $25 to talk to someone. After getting connected they said that if their posted troubleshooting tips don't work for getting out disk, the unit is broken. They said it was out of their scope and against company policy to tell me how take apart the unit to get my disk. So I asked, "You mean to tell me I paid $25 for you to tell me the device is broken and you won't tell me how to get the disk out??" I was ticked. After I asked to speak to a supervisor, my $25 was refunded to me.

I broke apart the device with a screwdriver (not easy, by the way) to find that the ejection mechanism was made out of the flimsiest and most brittle plastic I have ever seen -- like the mechanism was designed to break. Which it had. Plastic utensils are made better. I was able to get the disk out. (Hint: The ejection mechanism is on the belly of the device and hardest to get to.)

Anyway, so now I have to order yet another zip drive so I can transfer all my data to another medium, then I will kiss my zip drive goodbye.

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EJH

Excellent Device, thank God they still make them!

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2009

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I had a iOmega SCSI Zip Drive connected to a FireWire to SCSI adapter connected to Power Book G4 /Mac and iOmega SCSI Zip Drive connected to an old Apple IIGS computer this computer would be totally obsolete if I didn't have a SCSI Zip Drive to connected to it. I have several SCSI Zip Drives I got refurbished years ago when they stopped making them just in case. I use this setup to transfer files between the two which would be impossible without the Zip Drives. I got the Zip 250 USB cause my FireWire to SCSI adapter failed to work after a little more then five years of use and I have a lot of 100MB Zip disks. I use it on the Mac side and it works well. Also useful for transferring files between the Mac and a PC. I give it a four star cause it writes slow but it reads faster then it writes and its compatibility deserves five.

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Digital Storage Capacity	0.25 GB
Connectivity Technology	USB
Brand	Iomega
Special Feature	Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor	2.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description	Usb
Compatible Devices	Desktop
Installation Type	External Hard Drive
Hard Disk Size	250 MB
Specific Uses For Product	Personal

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