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Yes, Zip discs are considerably larger than standard floppy disks.
A standard floppy disc is 90mm × 94mm x 3mm. Zip discs are much wider longer and thicker at 97mm x 98.5mm x 6mm. This is because internally the platter of a Zip disk had a much higher spin speed and required space to spin free of any resistance.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 12y agoCapacity, mostly. Traditional floppies have a maximum capacity of 2.88 MB. Zip disks had a starting capacity of 100 MB, and have a current max of 750 MB. Zip drives can still read traditional floppies, but Zip disks have narrower tracks and spin faster, so a standard floppy drive cannot read them.
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∙ 14y agoCapacity, mostly. Traditional floppies have a maximum capacity of 2.88 MB. Zip disks had a starting capacity of 100 MB, and have a current max of 750 MB. Zip drives can still read traditional floppies, but Zip disks have narrower tracks and spin faster, so a standard floppy drive cannot read them.
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∙ 14y agoThe storage capacity of Floppy Disk is normally 1.44 MB or 2.88 MB whereas, the storage capacity of Zip Drive is 100 MB..
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What came after zip disk?
What came after floppy disk
Can i use a floppy disk in a zip drive?
No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.
What came straight after the floppy disc?
Zip Disk.
Which Floppy-disk cartridges store at least 70 times the capacity of the standard floppy?
Zip Drive..
Which has the largest potential for disk capacity a CD DVD floppy drive or zip drive?
Zip drive, floppy capacity is usually only ~1.4GB
What is the difference between a zip and a DVD?
Depends on what you mean by "zip". A zip file is a file of data that has been compressed to maximize storage space. A zip disk was a removeable magnetic recording medium that held more than a floppy disk, but less than a DVD. A DVD is an optical medium. You can put zip files on a DVD, but they will not be playable on a DVD player, since software is required in order to "unzip" them.
How do you increase a floppy disk space?
rty compressing files before it is written (zip or rar)
Name 3 kind of storage drive?
zip disk drive floppy disk drive cd drive dvd drive
What technically is an Iomega zip drive?
A Iomega zip drive is a disk drive that is very similar to a floppy disk drive. Iomega is the company who produces these disk drives, and are compatible with Mac and IBM computer systems.
Can you name five storage devices?
DVD-ROMCD-ROMExternal hard diskfloppy diskpen drive
How do zip superdisk and jaz disks compare to hard drives and floppy disks?
Zip,Super Disk, and Jaz drives hold large amounts of data and are portable.Floppy Disk and hard drives and notportableand cant hold that much data.
Does A hard disk provides much less storage capacity than a floppy disk or zip disk?
Zip disks can hold 100 megabytes. Today's hard drives usually hold 250 gigabytes, smaller ones are around 100 gigabytes, and large ones are upwards of 500 gigabytes. One gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, so the typical hard drive can hold 2,500 times more than a zip disk. To answer the question in one word, no.
