USB Orb drive

[Szech]

Here at my school, the various computers have Zip drives and Jazz drives. I currently have a zip drive on my own computer, but it is SLOW (parallel port). I was considering buying a USB Orb drive, but I wanted to know more about it. 1) Since it is USB, I just plug it in the USB port and go, right? Does the drive just show up under My Computer a couple of seconds after I plug it in? 2) Is it reliable? 2.2 gigs is a lot, but it's worthless if it corrups the data in one of my projects. 3) How fast is the USB version? I know USB 1.1 has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 megs / sec or something, is this how fast the drive can read or write?

Thanks.

[KillerBug]

The whole point of removable media is that is is sharable between computers, orb is not.

[deep_sky]

well, if it is usb, then it should be sharable between computers that have the drivers for the drive installed on it. all you need to do is plug the drive in. windows will autodetect it and start searching for drivers. tell it to search the cd or floppy with the drivers and windows will detect them. then you should be ready to go....