Thursday, November 17, 2011
Zip Drive have been displaced by CD-R and CD-RW drives.
Zip drives are a removable disk storage system introduced by Iomega in 1994. The first Zip drives released to the market had a data storage capacity of 100MB (Megabytes) and then developed to 250MB and 750MB. Zip drives are similar to a floppy drive but have much higher capacity and speed. They are the same size as a 3.5 inch floppy drive. Zip drives became popular very quickly as soon as they were introduced for backing up and transporting data. But over time the demand for zip drives and disks dropped drastically after CD-R and CD-RW were introduced since these were lower in price and higher in storage capacity....
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