My new USB Zip drive from Iomega finally arrived. The floppies days may be numbered, but the Zip's popularity shows no sign of peaking anytime soon, despite increased competition. The sleek, translucent ice-blue USB Zip drive gives you compatibility with the 100 million Zip disks Iomega says have been sold. There's a lot to like about the USB Zip.
Installation is a breeze.
You just connect the USB cable to your Mac, install the IomegaWare software, and you're off. Unlike its SCSI counterpart, the USB Zip is hot swappable. After the IomegaWare software has been loaded, you can disconnect and reconnect the drive at your pleasure, moving it among several Macs if you wish. The drive also feels rugged and durable, like the Zip disks themselves. The Zip drive won't win any speed contest, but its 19MB per minute of data transfer is still a whole lot faster than a floppy and even the USB-based SuperDisk drives.