The ancient Mac has no USB capability, but it has its own separate SCSI Zip drive built-in, which makes it easy to use the exact same Zip *disks* on both the PC and the Mac (the Mac reads/writes to PC-formatted disks). I use Zip drives for occasional file transfers between a fairly-modern low-end PC (for internet and coding) and an antique Mac (which is used for image editing). The PC that I have this Zip drive hooked up to, dual-boots to both Ubuntu and XP Pro, and the Zip drive works fine with both of those OS's. No bugs, no glitches, just good solid performance.
(One of my noisy flimsy newer ones got accidently dropped onto a concrete floor and stopped working, and the other noisy newer one I will keep for a spare for future years' use, just in case.)Īt least in my case, the Zip drive being reviewed here, works perfectly in both Microsoft Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu 10.10 (Linux). I've owned two of the noisy newer ones, and I'd had quite enough of them, so I am very happy to finally get ahold of another old-style traditional quiet Zip drive. The quietness quality is exactly why I bought this Zip drive - to replace newer noisy ones that were waking up my neighbors (seriously). This Zip drive's case is sturdy and solid, seems well-built, not flimsy like some newer models.
So if you've ever owned one of the original Iomega Zip drives from back in the late 1990s, that's the same kind of nice sound that this one makes.Īlso, when you eject a disk from this drive, the disk doesn't go flying out of the drive like on some of the newer models - it only ejects far enough for you to reach it. This translucent/clear-blue Iomega drive just makes a polite barely-audible tiny little whirring noise when it's accessing files, and it makes the standard 1999-era non-objectionable mild "thunk" when you eject a disk. This translucent-blue square-edged old-style Iomega Zip 100 drive is quiet - it does *not* make irritating racket like some of the other, more recent, rounded-edge Iomega Zip drives.
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