Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day agoOr I’ll just… more bad financial decisions incoming - buy another one. Though I don’t know how much it’s worth. I got this one with the disks for €22. There’s one more (functional) USB ZIP drive with 3 disks, an older one which also needs external power (and is transparent), but it’s already at €35 and there’s 19 people watching the auction, so… Probably because it’s also with the original box and Iomegaware CDs.
Really, I just wanted a functional ZIP drive just to have one. Honestly, if it was cheap, I’d just bring it with me and use it instead of a flash drive just for fun. That would get some stares. And 100MB is still pretty fine for documents (that are backed up).
If you want a novel but obsolete portable storage format, you could check out MiniDiscs. You’d need a working recorder that supports Hi-MD for data storage.
I believe them to be more reliable than Zip discs, though I no data to back that. But still, it’s 20+ year old equipment with mechanical components, so equipment failure is just a matter of time.
Working recorders can also be a bit pricey.
One I wish I could get is SuperDisk LS-240. It came some time later, so it wasn’t quite popular, but the later LS-240 drives had one very cool trick. They could re-format 1.44MB floppies to FD32MB format as they called it, bringing them to 32MB through the use of SMR. Of course, they couldn’t then be used in regular floppy drives again, but damn, 32MB on a regular 3.5" floppy.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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