Re: Iomega Parallel Zip 100 drive (boxed/mint)

Kevin wrote:
On Web wrote:
<lucretia9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1192653860.983310.285820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have one of these and 10 disks. Has been sitting around in it's box
for ages. Would like to pass onto somebody can make use of it.

Make me an offer excluding P&P (as I've no idea what that'll cost as
it's quite a big heavy box and this will be added onto your offer).

Thanks,
Luke.

These seem to appear on freecycle reasonably often.

Who would want to buy 1GB of capacity in a big box and spread over ten discs, when you can buy the same on a memory stick for a few pounds?

1,someone with an old OS and no USB
2,someone who needs data of one of those disks

and on ebay the prices go from 99p and no bids ,to a £20 successful sale all depends which way the wind blows

At least one major, national, charity still has these as the standard backup devices fitted to almost all machines. OK, where there have been several machines in an office, these are now mostly redundant and backup is done on a network. However, they still have lots of offices with dial-up and only a single machine. They have a backup strategy in place that has been working well.

10 x100Meg has advantages over 1GB in one memory stick - for a backup system with incrementals and full backups in a grandfather<>father<>son or similar. It is rather hard to have part of a single 1GB memory stick offsite.. ;) - a voltage surge during a backup is unlikely to damage the zip disk in the drive (although could easily kill the drive itself) - and certainly not the other 9 in the drawer..

What they would like to do is to replace the 10 (or rather more) zip carts with 10 (or rather more) memory sticks. But multiply the cost of a stick by 10 (or more) and then by a couple of hundred to cover all the machines - and it becomes more cost effective to continue to use zips and phase them out as machines are replaced.

To cut a long story short - yes I still use these things and still have to keep a stock of the carts and spare drives...luckily they do turn up on freecycle ;)

--
Sue
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