Back of the ZIP-100 with parallel port printer pass-through The Zip drive is a removable floppy system that was introduced by in late 1994. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100, then 250 MB, and then 750 MB. The format became the most popular of the products which filled a in the late 1990s portable storage market.

However, it was never popular enough to replace the 3.5-inch. The final versions of the disk reached 750 MB, the capacity available on, which was far surpassed by the later.

Ultimately proved to be the most popular rewritable storage medium among the general public due to the near-ubiquity of USB ports on personal computers and soon after because of the far greater storage sizes offered. Zip drives fell out of favor for mass portable storage during the early 2000s.

The Zip brand later covered internal and external CD writers known as Zip-650 or Zip-CD, which have no relation to the Zip drive. Contents. Overview The Zip drive is a disk drive that has all of the 3.5-inch floppy drive's convenience, but with much greater capacity options and with performance that is much improved over a standard floppy drive. However, Zip disk housings are much thicker than those of floppy disks.

In the Zip drive, the heads fly in a manner similar to a. A linear actuator uses the actuation technology related to modern hard disk drives. The Zip disk uses smaller media (about the size of a 9 cm (3.5-inch) microfloppy, but more ruggedised, rather than the -sized Bernoulli media), and a simplified drive design that reduced its overall cost. The original Zip drive has a maximum data transfer rate of about 1.4 /second (comparable to 8× CD-R; although some connection methods are slower, down to approximately 50 /second for maximum-compatibility parallel 'nibble' mode) and a of 28 on average, compared to a standard 1.44 MB floppy's effective 16 kB/sec and 200ms average seek time. Typical desktop hard disk drives from mid-to-late 1990s revolve at 5400 rpm and have transfer rates from 3 MB/s to 10 MB/s or more, and average from 20 ms to 14 ms or less.

Much like hard drives, and floppies themselves, the capacity stated for Zip discs is purely nominal, not accounting for any formatting or filestructure overheads, and is stated using metric, rather than binary quantifiers. For example, the typical user file capacity of an MS-DOS formatted Zip100 is actually around 95.4, or just over 100,000,000 bytes. This is a slightly lower proportion than the 1.39 MiB (1,457,664 bytes) available on a '1.44MB' 3.5-inch floppy diskette (95.4% vs 96.5%), though it is significantly better than the relationship between that useful capacity and the '2MB' claimed by an unformatted DSHD.

Early-generation Zip drives were in direct competition with the or LS-120 drives, which hold 20% more data and can also read standard 3.5-inch 1.44 MB diskettes, but they have a lower data-transfer rate due to lower rotational speed. The rivalry was over before the dawn of the USB era. The Zip drive was Iomega's third generation of products different from Iomega's earlier in many ways including the absence of the Bernoulli plate of the earlier products,. Interfaces. Later (USB, left) and earlier (parallel, right) Zip drives (media in foreground). Also known as,.

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6.4 or higher (SCSI only) NB 1: Requires a driver older than 5.x. Compatibility Higher-capacity Zip disks must be used in a drive with at least the same capacity ability.

Higher-capacity drives can read lower-capacity media. The 250 MB drive writes much more slowly to 100 MB disks than the 100 MB drive, and the Iomega software is unable to perform a 'long' (thorough) format on a 100 MB disk. (They can be formatted in Windows as normal; the advantage of the Iomega software is that the long format can format the 100MB disks with a slightly higher capacity. 250 MB disks format to the same size either way.) The 750 MB drive has read-only support for 100 MB disks. The retroreflective spot differs between the 100 MB disk and the 250 MB such that if the larger disk is inserted in a smaller-capacity drive, the disk is immediately ejected again without any attempt being made to access the disk. The 750 MB disk has no reflective spot.

Sales, problems, and licensing Zip drives initially sold well after their introduction in 1994, owing to their low price and high (for the time) capacity. The drive was initially sold for just under US$200 with one cartridge included, and additional 100 MB cartridges for US$20. At this time typically had a capacity of 500 MB and cost around US$200, and so backing up with Zip disks was very economical for home users—some computer suppliers such as and included Iomega internal Zip drives in their machines. Zip drives also made significant inroads in the graphic arts market, as a cheaper alternative to the cartridge hard disk system. The price of additional cartridges swiftly dropped further over the next few years, as more companies began supplying them.

Eventually, the suppliers included, and,. NEC also produced a licensed 100 MB drive model with its brand name.

Zip Disk and Drive sales, 1998 to 2003 Sales of Zip drives and disks declined steadily from 1999 to 2003. Zip disks had a relatively high cost per megabyte compared to the falling costs of then-new and discs. The growth of hard disk drives to multi-gigabyte capacity made backing up with Zip disks less economical.

Furthermore, the advent of inexpensive recordable CD and DVD drives for computers, followed by, pushed the Zip drive out of the mainstream market. Nevertheless, during their prime, Zip disks greatly eased the exchange of files that were too big to fit into a standard 3.5-inch floppy or an email attachment, and there was no high-speed connection to transfer the file to the recipient. However, the advantages of magnetic media over optical media and flash memory, in terms of long-term file storage stability and high erase/rewrite cycles, still affords them a niche in the data-storage arena.

In September 1998, a was filed against Iomega over a type of Zip drive failure dubbed the ', accusing Iomega of violation of the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act. In 2006, rated the Zip drive as the 15th worst technology product of all time. Nonetheless, in 2007, PC World rated the Zip drive as the 23rd best technology product of all time despite its known problems. Legacy Zip drives are still used today by retro-computing enthusiasts as a means to transfer large amounts (compared to the retro hardware) of data between modern and older computer systems. The, and communities often use drives with the SCSI interface prevalent on those platforms.

They have also found a small niche in the music production community, as SCSI-compatible Zip drives can be used with vintage samplers and keyboards of the 1990s. Zip disks are still in use in aviation. For example, Zip disks are used by Jeppesen (a Boeing Company) for navigation database updates and avionics companies such as Universal Avionics supply TAWS, UniLink and Performance databases, which remain available via Zip Disk, for uploading into an FMS (Flight Management System) via SSDTU (Solid State Data Transfer Unit). 'Updates are available for download from Universal Avionics web site or are provided on 3.5-inch disks, 100 MB Zip Disks (SCN 603-604 and 703-704) or 512 MB USB Flash drives.' ZipCD Iomega also produced a line of internal and external drives under the Zip brand in the late 1990s, called the ZipCD 650. It used regular CD-R media and had no format relation to the Zip drive.

The external models were installed in a Zip-drive-style case, and used standard connections. Iomega used the DirectCD software from to allow drive-letter access to CD-R or CD-RW media. The company released an open standard CD-R drive and CD-RW media under the same ZipCD name Early models of ZipCD drives were relabeled drives, which were also so unreliable that a succeeded. The ZipCD 650 is able to record onto 700 MB CDs but can only burn data up to 650 MB. There is third-party firmware that forces the ZipCD 650 to be able to write data CDs up to 700 MB but makes the drive unstable. See also.

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The Zip™ disk has millions of loyal fans worldwide, thanks to its reliability and portability. And now the new 250MB member of the family makes Zip™ an even more attractive choice. Increased capacity combined with Fujifilm’s legendary reliability (it’s Fujifilm’s ATOMM technology that made the Zip™ format possible), make Zip™ the perfect medium for running applications, multimedia presentations, large spreadsheets, and much more. Best of all, the Zip™ 250 drive is backwards compatible so you can read all of your existing 100MB Zip™ disks. The 250MB Zip™ disk boasts a sustained transfer rate of 2.4MB/second when used on a SCSI bus – fast enough for direct playback of uncompressed music. This is made possible through a rotation speed of 2941rpm, achievable via ATOMM’s super-smooth surface and enhanced durability.

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