However, it was never popular enough to replace the 3 1⁄2-inch floppy disk.
The format became the most popular of the superfloppy products which filled a niche in the late 1990s portable storage market. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and then 750 MB. The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994.
