Zip disk

The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the 3.5in floppies and it's drives, though in the end none of the superfloppies managed to do so.

The ZIP drive is incompatible with standard floppies meaning a ZIP drive couldn't read/write a standard floppy disk and vice versa.

They came in 3 different sizes

• 100MB
• 250MB
• 750MB

Many variants of the drives were made, IDE, SCSI, parallel and USB are the most important ones. Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with the earlier media (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).