Zip disks are considered obsolete these days, as all their advantages have been superseded by CD-RW and DVD-RW drives.
Back when zip disks were common, they would have most likely been compared to floppy disks, over which their advantages were higher storage capacity and higher read/write speed.
More storage space usually. And speed.
A zip disk is a disk which can be read by a Zip drive.
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What came after floppy disk
Zip disk
A Zip disk, and a CD-ROM are two completely different storage devices ! The Zip Disk was (in simple terms) a high-capacity disk, It was superseded by the invention of the CD-ROM, which offered much higher reliability and capacities. The invention of the Zip-disk was attributed to its marketing company Iomega - no single person has been credited with its invention.
A zip disk is a removable storage device that is designed to fit in a zip drive. Zip disks were first produced in 1995. Zip disks cannot be read by any other drive, and a zip drive cannot read any other disks.
250mb is the capacity for a zip disk The early Zip drives had just 100MB.
210 mm
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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.
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