![]() The blue plastic drive casing itself may be mounted flat, or on its edge to save space (see photo), and power comes from a plug‑in adaptor. For little more than the price of an external floppy drive, the Zip 100 can pack up to 100Mb onto a single disk (cartridge) that's little bigger than a conventional 3.5‑inch floppy, and though its access time is a little slower than that of a regular hard drive, it's still fast enough to treat as a conventional hard drive for backup purposes. Iomega's incredibly compact Zip 100 drive would appear to offer the ideal solution, and at a far lower cost than using SyQuest drives or similar devices. The same can be said of hard disk audio recording - where do you back up your files if you want to re‑use your hard drive? Long gone are the days when your largest samples would fit onto a 1.44Mb high‑density floppy disk with room to spare - nowadays, even an unexpanded sampler has 2Mb of RAM, while a fully expanded model might have as much as 64Mb, or even more (that's a lot of floppies!). Anyone into sampling or hard disk recording appreciates the need for a low‑cost, high‑capacity, archivable storage medium - and that's exactly what Iomega's Zip 100 drive delivers.
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