The good news for you is that Iomega's attempt to enter new markets makes its original Zip drives more affordable and attractive. Here are five reasons small office owners might consider purchasing a Zip drive. Look for rebates, too, as Iomega pushes some of its new models, like the USB version. 250 is better than 100. For not much more than the original Zip drive cost, you can now get 2.5 times as much storage.
Zip drives work best in tandem.
Rather than schlep your notebook computer with you to a client's office, you can bring just a Zip disk if you know you'll be working at a PC with a Zip drive. Programmers, architects, and designers who regularly produce large files that take up most of a Zip drive sometimes work with clients you want their work on media, not as an FTP file. Delivering 240 megabytes of TIF files on one Zip disk is much more convenient than spanning them across the better part of 100 floppy disks. Press coverage to the contrary, they're reliable. I've used the same two Zip drives, one portable and one internal, regularly since 1995.