250MB Fujifilm Zip Disc

This Zip-disc of 250MB capacity was used in Iomega drives. It looks like an ordinary 3.5” diskette.

Iomega Zip 250MB ATAPI Drive

Once, Iomega was popular, if not spectacular, launching a few drives that used big 100MB “floppies”. This capacity was really huge at that time and allowed storing software applications and a lot of other information. As time was passing by, the situation changed. Requirements to capacity, mobility and write speed were constantly increasing and now even 250 and 750MB disks don’t save Iomega’s Zip-drives. There are too many competitors. Still, they are present in the market, that’s why we included them into the review.

This internal Zip-drive resembles an elongated 3.5” floppy drive. Well, this is quite logical, as the manufacturer intended such drives to replace their 1.4MB analog in computer cases. Although this has never happened.

You are very unlikely to confuse the Zip-drive from Iomega with anything else – the label “Zip 250” tells what you deal with. The eject button is quite an original thing: it’s rounded and transparent and with a LED inside, which indicates the drive status during work. The back panel of the drive looks similar to HDDs: interface and power supply connectors and the pin set with a jumper for drive’s positioning on the cable are all there.