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A: A zip drive is a device for reading and writing data from removable storage devices called Zip discs. Internal models typically take up a 2.5" drive bay (like a floppy disk drive). External models are about the size of a thick paperback book. A zip disk is about the size of 3 3.5" floppy disks stuck back to back, but has significantly larger capacity. Zip disks are now, like floppy disks, obsolete. They are physically larger, more expensive, slower, store less data and are less reliable then USB memory sticks.