what are the advantages and the disadvantages of a Zip Disc?

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what are the advantages and the disadvantages of a Zip Disc

Answer 1

One disadvantage is that they are expensive. This is verses CDRs. I buy supplies for my company and Zip Discs are way more expensive that a spindle of CDRs.
I don't see any advantages at my level.

Answer 2

Zip Drive Advantages

Answer 3

A Zip disk has many advantages and disadvantages. An advantage is that it is portable magnetic media that can store 100 MB to 750 MB of data. The zip disk can hold up to 500 times as much data as a floppy disc can. You have to have a Zip drive to be able to read zip disks. Zip disk are twice as large and about twice as thick as a floppy disc would be. So a disadvantage would be that they are not as small as floppy discs. Those are some advantages and disadvantages of Zip disks

Answer 4

Dear,

Zip and Jaz drives are similar to floppy drives because the individual disks are removable and portable but they hold much larger amounts of data (typically between 100 MB and 2 GB).

Advantages: Portable media, relatively cheap, good for archiving data.
Disadvantages: Not a compact as USB flash-drives, can be damaged, slow data transfer compared to modern alternatives


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There is no advantage to a floppy disk, unless you need a very tiny boot up thing and you don't have a cd drive. Not reliable construction and beyond slow. Zip drives have been essentially obselete for some time, but better capacity, construction. SPeed depends on the Zip drives interface.

Answer 6

From PC World,

"Click-click-click. That was the sound of data dying on thousands of Iomega Zip drives. Though Iomega sold tens of millions of Zip and Jaz drives that worked flawlessly, thousands of the drives died mysteriously, issuing a clicking noise as the drive head became misaligned and clipped the edge of the removable media, rendering any data on that disc permanently inaccessible.

Iomega largely ignored the problem until angry customers filed a class action suit in 1998, which the company settled three years later by offering rebates on future products. And the Zip disk, once the floppy's heir apparent, has largely been eclipsed by thumb drives and cheaper, faster, more capacious rewritable CDs and DVDs." http://pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,4/article.html

If you ask me, there are no advantages, just get yourself a 1GB to 2GB flash drive and forget about them, in fact, forget they ever existed (why else would they be on a worst tech list).

Answer 7

Advantage: Amount of information held.

Disadvantage: They are out of style and are being replaced by flash drives.