Brendan,
Let me point you to the latest issue of PC Magazine(4/21/98) where they do a review of 22 Removable storage devices:
zdnet.com
And one of the PC Magazine Editor's choices for Removable Storage devices goes to:
zdnet.com
The 100MB Iomega ZipPlus, from Iomega Corp., isn't the fastest drive, nor the one with the most capacity, nor the most economical ($200 street for the external drive, 13 cents per megabyte for cartridges). But this Editors' Choice delivers the right combination of ease of use and portability to make it ideal for a range of tasks, from shuttling files between home and office to taking data on the road. And with 11 million drives sold and counting, the Zip line of drives is the closest thing to a de facto standard for augmenting your floppy disk drive. So if you need to share files with other PC users (one of the biggest jobs of a removable drive), it's fairly likely they will have a Zip Drive, or have access to one. If you are buying a new PC, you certainly want to opt to have a Zip installed (typically a $99 upgrade). If you are adding a drive to your present PC, ask around; if there are Zip users in your circle, you'll have your answer.
Ben A. |
