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There are a form of storage media similar to floppy disks but can hold about 70 times as much data and are a different size. You do need a zip drive to be able to record and extract data from a zip disk. A zip disk should not be confused with Zip files that are compressed so that they are quicker to download and upload on the Internet and take less storage space. Zip files are created by programs such as Winzip and you need a program like Winzip to open and uncompress zip files. These are in no way connected to zip disks.

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Posted on 19 / 01 / 2006

I purhcased the first ever external zip drive from iomega quite a long time ago, back then the software and drive was quite slow at transferring data from the computer to the disk. Over the years with the updating of the drives and software the time has increased dramatically. I am sure it must be two or three times as quick, maybe even faster. And with disks that can hold 750MB it can easily compete with rewritable cd's. I have to say that using an external drive does make it a little tricky with the lack of room i have, and there doesnt seem to be an off button on the drives. This lack of an off button is really annoying. It means i have to switch everything off and on at the plug, something i never did before owning a zip disk. Apart from this I have had many trouble free years from my zip drive and disks.

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Zip disks and drives were first released by Iomega and you can currently buy a pack of four Iomega zip disks for £24.99 on the Internet. This price is much lower than it was say 3 or 4 years ago when one zip disk could cost around £24.99. With files becoming larger and larger zip disks are much more useful currently than floppy disks.