Zip drive

English

Alternative forms

• zip drive

Etymology

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

Noun

Zip drive (plural Zip drives)

1. (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