Best external zip drives according to redditors

We found 12 Reddit comments discussing the best external zip drives. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about External Zip Drives:

u/com4 · 8 pointsr/WTF

> the parallel port is used for printing and stuff like that

Actually you can save data via parallel port: The zipdrive did that in the early years

u/jackcalx · 3 pointsr/pcgaming

>I expect HDD's not to be there anymore within 5-10 years.

Maybe on the consumer end, not on business/server end. Tho even on the consumer end I would more say 15 to 20 primary due to legacy issues and even then I doubt they will ever go away.

>Just like the cassette, floppy disk, vhs, tapedrives, zipdrives etc etc.

Ya I am a smart ass. Tho the point is there is always a need for legacy hardware and such it won't really ever go away totally.

u/nikkistl · 3 pointsr/sewing

A zip drive reads zip discs. I didn't realize you can still buy them but apparently you can.
https://smile.amazon.com/Iomega-100MB-USB-Powered-Drive-Zip/dp/B00005U7RB?sa-no-redirect=1

My Baby Lock machine has a USB port but that is for plugging in thumb drives (or the computer). If I get an embroidery pattern on CD, I have to put it onto the thumb drive first then plug that into my machine.

If you want to read a CD, any CD drive should work, put it on the computer then copy to a thumb drive.

u/MalooFury · 2 pointsr/pcmasterrace

At that price you'd be better off getting a nicer wheel used, like a G27 or G25, maybe a DFGT. Most new wheels at that price tend to be a bit shit, frankly. Although if you must get a new steering wheel, the reviews for [this] (https://www.amazon.de/Hama-PC-Racing-Wheel-Thunder-Bremspedal-USB-Anschluss/dp/B000LY293Q/ref=sr_1_6?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1485643146&sr=1-6&keywords=steering+wheel+pc) Make it seem decent enough.

u/pelanderfunk · 1 pointr/pics

Does it also vend external zip drives?

u/ajshell1 · 1 pointr/pcmasterrace

Do USB zip drives work properly on Windows 10? Something like this?

I recently found an old Gateway with a Zip drive, and I thought I could use it since it has trouble reading some of my CDs.

u/Black3ird · 1 pointr/pcgaming

Why Consoles uses "Proprietary" storage mediums is uncomparably different from the need for today's Optical Discs because it is a way to enforce user to stay on that Console's Ecosystem (how bad it maybe) so that they'll have no option yet to keep "Buying" such unlike extremely easy ways of cracking today's games elsewhere.

So, PC World will "never" have something like Cartridges or alike and all had died as had hands on experience because a friend had this and swore he'll never go against mainstream storage again. What we can deduct here is PC Gamers will always prefer some kind of Offline Storage and since seen birth of many things, also seen change of storage medium over two decades from C64's cassette tapes (was primarily for Music yet) to today's ever-decreasing price of SD Cards which is present on Pen Drives almost all of us have with us nowadays.

Since even if PC's real "CD/Compact Disc" phase of storage has phased out yet Music CDs are still strong as they never consider anything else, DVDs and BluRays even if maybe phased out for PC will have their "other" uses as such. What's expected is SD Card prices to become even cheaper so that reasonable sized today's games will fit into those and shipped on Collector's Vinyl Cases instead of any Optical Disc for ease, instant access via USB, fastest transfer speeds.

Note this, the "need" for Offline Storage will never cease.

u/senator_of_dick · 0 pointsr/washingtondc

FWIW it was apparently on a zip drive, not a laptop.

Apparently one can still buy them:
https://www.amazon.com/Iomega-10919-Drive-Parallel-Port/dp/B00000J3II/

u/P-Munny · 0 pointsr/AdviceAnimals

Remember Zip Drives? No, not the ones you're thinking of, these ones