PRESENTATION

ON
DISKETTES & ZIP
DISKS

GROUP MEMBERS(2A):
SAMOEYA LAWRENCE(GROUP LEADER)
TIMMERA GRANT
GAUSEAN COWARD
RONNEA WISDOM

What are Diskettes and

Zip
Disks
?
Diskettes (Floppy Disks):
A diskette is a random access, removable data storage
medium that can be used with personal computers. The
term usually refers to the magnetic medium housed in a
rigid plastic cartridge which can store up to 1.44
megabytes (MB) of data. This is use to transport important
files from one computer to another.

Zip Disk:
These are special removable disks that can store 100mb to
750mb of data. Zip disk are particularly useful for backing

Characteristics of Diskettes
and Zip Disks
Diskettes(Floppy Disc):
A removable, portable, cheap, low-capacity (1.44MB) storage
medium. Floppy discs are random access devices used for transfer
small amounts of data between computers, or to back-up small files,
etc. Access times are slow.
Almost every PC used to have a floppy disc drive. These are obsolete
now, having been replaced by higher capacity technology such as
CD-ROMs, DVDs and USB memory sticks.

Zip Disc:
A removable and portable storage medium, similar in
appearance to a floppy disk, but with a much higher capacity
(100MB, 250MB or 750MB).
Zip discs are random access devices which were used for
data back-up or moving large files between computers.
Another obsolete storage device, zip discs were a popular
replacement for floppy discs for a few years, but they never
caught on fully before being superseded by cheaper media
like CD-ROMs and CD-Rs

Advantages and
Disadvantages of
Diskettes
and
Zip
Disk
Diskettes(Floppy Disk)
Advantages

Disadvantages

1. Inexpensive

1. Has small storage capacity

2. Portable

2. Reads and write data slowy

Zip Disks
Advantages

Disadvantages

1. Portable and Inexpensive

1. It may not be possible to

extract all of the files from the
zip disk correctly

2. Durable, rewritable and has a

2. Damage data can affect the