what is a zip drive?

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what is a zip drive?

Answer 1

It was like a floppy only held more data, they were obsolete shortly after they hit the market due to cd burners...by the way....floppies only hold 1.44 megs....zip drives held about 11 megs...and a file zipper as others have stated has nothing to do with a zip drive!

Answer 2

A drive that condenses a file. In simplest terms, like a can of condensed soup where you add water or milk. Everything is there, it is just condensed.



A zip drive condenses the file so it can be saved or transported where limited space is available. When you want to open the file, you have to "unzip" it.



If you had need to transport a very large file that would not fit on a floppy, you would zip it, take it to another PC, cut/paste, then unzip. If both PCs have USB ports, this would probably not be necessary, but many PCs still use the floppies.

Answer 3

A Zip Drive was a drive built by Iomega for moving large files that wouldn’t fit on floppy disks that have a 1.44 MB limit. Zip Drives came in a 100 MB version, and later a 200MB version. Iomega went on to make larger drives and called them Jaz Drives, which came in two MB sizes as well. The smaller Jaz Drive was 1GB, and the larger one was 2GB. All these drives were replaced with the smaller and lower priced USB Jump Drives which come in sizes as high as 6GB and use memory chips that machines see as drives when attached. Then for larger drives, there are now USB External drives which are hard drives in very small cases with a USB Connection. They come in very large sizes. All these drives are cheaper than most Zip Drives were aprox. $100, and most Jaz Drives were $200 and up. The word "zip", refers to file compression software, (like WinZip) that made files take up about half the space they did before being ziped, or compressed. However the Zip Drives held uncompressed files as well. I guess Iomega called their smaller high volume drives Zip because it was a word known by most computer users back then.

Iomega now makes other drives and storage devices. www.iomega.com.

Answer 4

Zip Internal Drive is three drives in one: it increases your computers storage capacity without limits on inexpensive 100MB removable disks. It provides high-capacity mobile storage for use at the office, at home or on the road and makes data backups fast, easy and worry-free. The included Zip Tools&tm; software helps you track, organize and find everything. Zip Drive holds the stuff you need for work or play---its great for multimedia, applications, documents, presentations, financial data, graphics, music, scans and games. The Zip Internal drive was created with the customer in mind. For years now, people have been using Zip drives to move files between home and office.

Answer 5

A ZIP Drive is a device that supplements the constraints in storing data way back in the mid 90s. It enables storage of data amounting to less than 100MB which has far more storage space than a standard 1.44 Floppy disk.



Its a device which put the name IOMEGA into the computer peripherals arena.

Answer 6

Zip drive is a software which helps to reduce the size of any big files

by zipping we can reduce as much as the file space. the best example for this software is Winzip and Winrar.

Answer 7

It's an antique that was used to store files that were too big to fit on a floppy disk. They would only store about 100 MB so they have been replaced with USB Flash Drives that can store over 1 GB.

Answer 8

ZIP drive is a data storage like a floppy disk. But it's bigger then the disk. It have more capacity, but more expensive then floppy disk.



Masalahnya adalah kamu nggak bisa menggunakannya di komputer lain, karena hanya sedikit komputer yang memiliki zip drive.

Answer 9

ITs a pretty much outddated form of saving media, like a usb flash drive or floppy disk. It was basically used only by IBM computers. It was popular because it saved over 100Megabytes of data, compated to that times 3.44 mb on floppy disks. However, the invention of the CD-R replaced it.

Answer 10

a zip drive?

never heard of that one

a zip file is just one or more files compressed into one

but i dont know about a zip drive

Answer 11

a ZIP drive is an old style of data storage... like a floppy disk... my dad used to use them... noone uses them anymore, so i sugest u buy yourself a usb thumbdrive if u r looking for cheap/good data storage items.

Answer 12

Its a type of backup, which reduces the size of the original file

Answer 13

when u drive ur zipper up so that ur pants will get closed