Zip Drive Help Needed

[Shrebly]

Have an Iomega Zip drive and YMK came home with 100MB zip disks. I was under the impression that I could store a lot of stuff on these but after about 10 porn avi's it was full.

Is there a disk larger than 100MB that I can buy? Do I need to know what kind of Iomega Zip drive I own when I go to buy the disks? Should I just scrap this and go for a Jazz Drive?

 

[fogg88]

Zip disks top out at 100 Mb. (which used to be a lot of storage, back when they came out.) Jazz disks can get around a gig, but the blank disks are ridiculously expensive. Why not just a cd-rewritable drive? Much cheaper for the drive, and the blank media is dirt cheap too!

 

[WODIN]

Just get a external USB firewire drive. 20 - 80 gig should do ya if your looking for something that you can carry around to plug into another machine.

 

[Y_lifter]

Zip/Jazz are so 1990's...

Get a jahonkin big HDD or a CD Burner..

CD r/rw disks are dirt cheap and hold 700+ Meg each...

 

[Shrebly]

I have a CD player and a CD burner - so here is another stupid question. Do I have to by the 'media' CD's or can I use the music ones?

When I save a Word document and want to revise it and save the chances it just overwrites the original right? I don't want to have 20 versions of one file on a CDRW.

 

[Y_lifter]

I have a CD player and a CD burner - so here is another stupid question. Do I have to by the 'media' CD's or can I use the music ones?

MUSIC/MEDIA CD's.. Same thing, just burned differently.

When I save a Word document and want to revise it and save the chances it just overwrites the original right? I don't want to have 20 versions of one file on a CDRW.

Yes, if you close out the Burn session and then later burn another file onto the disk it should overwrite it...

 

[gettinlarger]

Zip disks top out at 100 Mb. (which used to be a lot of storage, back when they came out.) Jazz disks can get around a gig, but the blank disks are ridiculously expensive. Why not just a cd-rewritable drive? Much cheaper for the drive, and the blank media is dirt cheap too!

No, they don't. They make 250mb drives and disks, and I believe they're coming out with (or have already) with larger ones. I dunno how much larger though. But yeah, use a CD Burner instead.