Zip Drives

As linix so far does not have the ability to use cdrw as a floppy I use my zip drive for transfer between machines and as a record for unfinished projects and frequently altered files. I have found that as Suse gets along in the numbers it is getting less easy to set up the zip to work smoothly all the time. I don't think I'm the only one with these thoughts.

I have Zip 250's on all my machines. I use them far less than I used to though...blank CDs have become so cheap, they are almost disposable.

No never- no use for them.

"Do you or would you use a zip drive?"

No and no.

nope! no zip drive & don't really have use for one
blank rewritable cds are really cheap here now... so i guess i can just keep writing over them when i need to
its also great for trying out diff distros

ZIP drives had their dominance for a while... now the cheapest retail Zip 100 drive I've seen is $70, without any disks (disks being a good $20). I can get a CD burner for $19 (after rebate) and 100 CDs free after rebate from OfficeMax almost every other week... it's just not worth it, IMHO.

They had their day. Now they should just leave.

I think high-speed Flash/Holographic chips are next in line for dominance, after DVDs.

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~stephanb/projects/CSI3300.htm

Currently the cheapest holographic memory chip is 100 TB for about $100,000... last time I checked.

~~ Andrew D.
linuxnoob@wi.rr.com

Originally posted by andrewd18@Nov 8 2004, 06:44
They had their day. Now they should just leave.

I think high-speed Flash/Holographic chips are next in line for dominance, after DVDs.

Agreed. I love my flash thumb drives and I don't know why anyone would want to waste time with zip drives when flash drives are becoming cheaper and cheaper.

I used to have one because that was the only way to save anything at school. Now even my floppy is obsolete.

btw - anyone wanna buy an internal zip100

Nope, use my 256MB USB-stick. Works like a charm

Anyone using USB/FW harddrives with SUSE? Any recommendations to brands/models that work "out of the box" ?

I've got a 120GB Western Digital USB 2.0/FireWire Combo hard drive, and it worked right out of the box. It's formatted Fat32 by default, so I kept it that way, as Linux can write to Fat 32 just fine (if you use Azureus, make sure you have "incremental file creation" enabled).

I use the FireWire interface since I've got tons of USB flash drives, and it's easy to remember that /media/ieee_blahblahblahblah is my FireWire drive, while anything that's /media/usb-storage_blahblahblahblah is a smaller flash drive.

~~ Andrew D.
linuxnoob@wi.rr.com