Post by GHalleckPost by dxmahThanks for the info. Well. with all my Zip 100 discs, should I consider
getting the 250 or 750, say from Ebay?
How about looking for a low-time ATAPI-IDE ZIP 100. And
before it will eventually succumb to click-of-death, copy
over the files in the ZIP disks to a more durable media.
Best source is still the computer swap meets where one or
two retailers might still have some new ones in stock.
And for a future file transfer media, consider a USB Jump
Drive. There are Lexars and Kangarus good for 2 GB.
Heck on the low end I just picked up a 256MB USB jump/pen drive for only
20 bucks - less than the cost of 3 100MB zip disks...
Regarding the OP question: If you have a lot of 100 disks and plan to
write to them stick with a 100MB drive. Writes to a 100MB disk in a 250
drive are two to three times slower because the narrow heads in a 250
drive have to overwrite the 100's tracks repeatedly to fill out the
entire track width. 750 drives can't write to 100 disks at all - they
can only read them.
But do keep in mind that this is expensive and largely obsolete
technology. If you have to invest in another 100 Zip drive look at it in
context of a coversion process to some other form of media. How much
longer Iomega will keep Zip in any form afloat...? Over 10 years after
the drives were introduced it's just too expensive for what it does. And
still proprietary - if/when Iomega stops production that's the end of
it.