Zip drive

English

Alternative forms

zip drive

Etymology

A trademark of the Iomega Corporation. See zip (“move quickly”).

Noun

Zip drive (plural Zip drives)

(computing) A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB).

Related terms

zip

Translations

storage device

Finnish: Zip-asema
German: Zip-Laufwerk

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