Advantages of using a 250 Zip Drive

With speeds up to 1.5 Mbps, the 250 Zip drives are capable of fast reading and writing to disks. This means that office documents and files can be stored on Zip disks, without the usual slowdowns that are associated with normal floppy disk drives. Documents and files can be quickly transferred to the Zip hard drive, especially with USB 2.0 support, which helps the drive maintain quick transfer speeds. Mobile users, as well as desktop users, will both appreciate the increased speed of the 250MB Zip disks, which leave more time for working and relaxing (as opposed to watching a file save progress bar, or file copy dialog).

With increased capacities (and decreased cost of media), the Zip 250 is also perfect for data backup needs. Even with the increased size of today's backups, the Zip 250 contains more than enough space for most office documents and application backups. If more data space is needed, practically every backup software is capable of spanning backups onto several disks. So, even if a backup need is larger than 250 MB, the Zip drive can still fill those needs.

Portability of the Zip drive was perhaps one of Iomega's original goals when they created the 100MB Zip drive. This purpose has not been lost on the 250 Zip disk drive, but instead enhanced. With models measuring just one inch thick, the Zip drives are by far the easiest way to move data from one location to another.

In addition, the Zip drive software is easily obtained through Iomega's website, so there is no worry of losing the installation software when traveling. Using a widely accepted format, the 250MB disks are also still used by many other popular places, such as Internet cafés and printing stores. Having a popular format means that if your drive should break, you can easily access the data stored on your disks until you purchase a replacement drive.

The Zip drive has many other features, but the main features that will benefit everyone are its data size, data write/read speed, compact size, and popularity. The 250MB Zip drive will remain for quite some time as an easy solution for data needs.