Are ZIP drives only useful for reading and transferring data off of old ZIP media?
2085382
That's what I sue mine for. I had a lot a date stored on old ZIP disk with no way retrieving it.Hope this helps,Art Giberson
2085383
No, you can add to ZIP disks and add other ZIP disk info to your drive. Just isolate the material to be saved, and drag it to your ZIP drive. Hope this answers the question ...
1464573
Why would you want to do that ? How about deleting old files on the drive instead ?
1582034
Kind of, I bought one to read old files from the 80's - 90's. It took some time for Windows 7 to recognize the device. I can't remember how but I know I had to load the drivers manually from a web site that a private owner had, not Iomega. They use to say that those files would last for 30-35 years if stored correctly. I think they were stretching the truth a little. I stored them in a dark, dry and cool space. I had a number of labeled disc where nothing showed up when I tried to download them. Hundreds of photos lost forever. Very disappointing. Good luck.
2050236
That is a zip drive. It's stores information on 100 MB zip disks.Why on earth would you want to store navigation data on 15-year-old media. Especially when you can get a USB thumb drive that will hold 10 times that much for cheaper than buying an old zip drive.
2132262
NO: it is good for file tranfer.. just as you would use a low cpu NAS, for file transfer only. It is still cheaper just to buy a flash thumb drive to save files..It is not made to be a computer..
1029147
Not unless you have the right software to only read the hard drive. This device only turns the Hard Drive into an External Device. It has no options whatsoever.
2254187
Not as a standard option, the connections are but drives are not, if you are willing to access the Linus O/S then here is a link to consider: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/encrypted-filesystem
1054712
Agree with previous two answers. However, if you want to move data to an external drive, yes.
248976
The drive is used for dvd backups and picture storage. When the old drive failed, I purchased another USB 3.0. That didn't help. I recovered almost 1 TB in two days. Then, since I had not yet received the new 3.0 card, I tried using the USB 2.0 to transfer from another backup (a western digital) to the Seagate. In 3 days, I moved about 300 Gb. That was left on 24 hours, too. After I got and installed the new 3.0 (I still doubted the old one), all remaing 500 plus Gb moved in less than 3 hours!. I never measured or recorded the speed. And the old 3.0 USB worked similarly.
1107567
You can read them on a Linux box or any PC booted with rescue Linux cd. There are guides on how to do this. or buy used on ebay for $60 (that's what I did) or send your drives to someone who has similar hp unit
602223
I have not experienced any issues with the documents and mp3s that I have stored on the device. Unfortunately, I can not address your inquiry as it pertains to photo images. If your PC is currently using the USB 2.0 ports, this drive should be backwards compatible (being a 3.0 device) with it. However, the data transfer rates will be restricted by the speed of the 2.0 port.
1007373
I could not find any option in the UI to do it, my guess is that data are not encrypted and if you take out the HD you can actually get access to the files.
353471
No and it is not good on the Internet. You can use a USB had or thumb drive but t It doesn't do much else.
545222
Yes you can. There's multiple options at your disposal, such as Synology Data Replicator.
677870
Yea just copy them onto the drive and plug it in, you'll have to leave the drive in since it has no internal storage.
911001
I dont know if it will take a zip drive but I got mine from a trusted friend who barely used it. It quit working after about 2 months so I wouldnt recommend buying it.
1018592
No, and you don't really need it because Windows Home Server can maintain copies of all files on disparate drives so you can easily recover from single drive failures.