| Iomega Zip 750 |
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| Written by Mark Webster | ||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 01 May 2003 | ||||||||||||||||
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Barely thicker than the 750MB (or 100 or 250) removable disc it writes to, the USB2 (and 1.1) Zip 750 is an attractive, sleek unit in charcoal grey. The software that it ships with includes drivers for PCs and Mac OS 9 - it's recognised and mounts discs under OS 10.2.3+ but you need to download OS X tools to do anything else (hunt at www.iomega.com/global/asia_pacific.html). Once you've downloaded the latest relevant version of IomegaWare at 3.66MB (and the 30-day trial version of the 5.23MB Iomega Automatic Backup if you want it - you can buy it online for US$39.95), you can repair, protect or wipe your 750MB discs. After the installation process, there's a little mystification: where are the tools? After a restart you'll find Iomega Active Delivery in your System Preferences - this just checks for newer versions of the software - but the install has enabled your system to deal with the 750 discs - for example, if you right-mouse-button click on the mounted disc or hold down the control key and click on it, you get the feature set. I had to erase the PC detritus from the disc before I could use the demo unit supplied under OS X, and then a file copy totalling 673MB (via USB1.1) took 17.2 minutes, roughly eqivalent to a 6xCD burner (the software estimated 22 minutes). Of course, the Zip disc is almost infinitely rrewritable by comparison.
Until Apple starts shipping Macs with USB 2, users wanting quicker throughput will prefer the FireWire version, which is now shipping. Note: the 750 will read and write to 750MB and 250MB Zip discs but will only read 100MB discs, so be prepared to move your files on 100MB discs to 250s or 750s if you want them to remain editable. When I checked one of the first units last year, the noise on ejection was startling to say the least - this appears to have been addressed and the 750 is now quieter.
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© Parkside Media 2003
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