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Wouldn't it be a great idea if everyone had a zip drive at home?
Can you imagine all those advantages that you could obtain by having a zip drive?
Zip drive is a magnificent device that can conquer the world in a single finger flick. I think that it would be great to see people sharing large amounts of data by exchanging their zip disks.
Besides the very effective method of sharing information the zip drive can assist business to boom. The data used in businesses mainly consists of reports, catalogues, brochures, word and excel documents, invoices, order forms and other similar business documents, and all of this data cannot be often stored to a single floppy disk, but it requires larger storage device or needs to be zipped and saved to many inconvenient floppies. Of course there is still a possibility of purchasing Cd burner, 'Squest' drive or Jaz drive and using all the advantages of those ones.
But are those storage devices really cheap?
No way, they are usually twice much expensive than a zip drive, which would cost you only $99 (internal version). And for the price of a small pack of old fashion floppies you can now buy a shiny zip disk. By the way a small package of floppies contain only 14.4Mb (this includes 10 disks by 1.44Mb or less in each) of free space whilst a zip disk can store 100Mb of data.
Not only does the zip drive increase efficiency, save time and money of business it would also have a very positive effect on education. Zip drive is very useful for students because they would be able to retain all their large projects, essays, writing folios, pictures, charts and diagrams in a single zip disk.
What about reliability?
Have you ever experienced your floppy disk stopping to respond or became faulty?
Or can you imagine what effect a loss of the very important information would have on you?
I know that it's very hard to face those possibilities but should not ignore them. Zip disk is very reliable indeed. Once you buy a zip disk and save your important information to it then you would be facing a very low probability of having your information corrupted, having a zip disk failure or similar unpleasant disaster.
According to Iomega, zip disk's shelf life is at least 10 years whish is absolutely amazing and a feature that we cannot guarantee for a floppy disk. Besides this, kids can use zip disks to exchange games, programs and other applications. Even the web page creators can advantage from a zip drive. Their generally huge amounts of information that include pictures, animations, writing and programming material can be safely stored into a single zip drive and all those troubles with zipping data to floppies can be overcome.
Generally if we all had a zip drive then this would mean the beginning of a totally new revolution in information exchange. The zip drive would reduce the costs of business and simultaneously increase its efficiency too, improve information sharing information among computer users, lead to a better educational standard for students and thereby increase the comminutes standard of living.
