The Iomega : A Quick Background

For several years the floppy controlled the information back-up market for the home customer as they offered inexpensive data storage. Ok using floppies was akward, slow as well as highly unreliable but at the time it was all we had. Then along came the and the world of data backup altered over night many thanks to the creator of the – Iomega. No more were you restricted to a puny 1.4 MB of disk storage space – currently you might fit 100MB on one single Zip disk. Later on this enhanced to, an after that, large 750MB of storage area which was entirely uncommon at the time.

Zip drives functioned in practically exactly similarly as a floppy except they were physically bigger and supplied a much greater information transfer price than residence individuals had actually ever seen prior to in an “exterior” data storage gadget. The largest trouble with Zip drives is that although they resembled floppies you still needed a separate to check out or contact these disks which consequently meant extra expenditure for house individuals. Likewise there was a rival technology called the LS-120 or SuperDisk that found favour with several computer makers (paradoxically enough the long outlasted the LS-120 in regards to appeal as well as efficiency) so the Zip drive dealt with an uphill struggle from it’s intro to an anxious computer system market.

The Zip drive was/is readily available in a couple of different tastes. There were parallel, SCSI, USB and also IDE Zip drives offered on the market at one phase. This suggested that regardles of what kind of computer system you had you would certainly have the ability to find a with a suitable interface. This implied that both Mac as well as COMPUTER users tended to enjoy the although many Mac individuals tended to favor the Zips bigger SCSI brother – the Jaz drive … that however is the subject for an additional write-up for another day.

Unfortunately for all their ingenuity the Zip drive has become all but out-of-date. The current growth in disk drive storage abilities has actually meant that any storage space tool supplying much less than 10GB – 20GB of storage area is all but overlooked as an useful backup tool. Any computer customer analysis this who has actually ever before had a Zip drive will possibly feel the exact same sense of fond memories I felt when composing it. The was unbelievably advanced in it’s day and also led the way for a real boom in data backup modern technology for homes and local business. RIP Zip drive … you will be missed out on.