» They are high-capacity removable disk and drive.
» They have the speed and capacity of hard disk and portability of floppy disk.
» Zip disk are of the same size as floppy disk, i.e., 3–½ inch but have a much higher capacity than the floppy disk.
» Zip disk and drive were made by Iomega Corp. It comes as a complete unit — disk, drive, connection cable, power cord and operating system. It can be connected to the computer system externally using a parallel chord or SCSI cable.
» Their capacity ranges from 100 MB to 750 MB. They can be used to store large files, audio and video data.
Zip Disk