Today, with the amount of technology developed, there are new and various drives in existence.

Below are descriptions of some more popular removable drives:

Iomega
Zip, Zip Plus
Portable drives holding up to 100 MB data.
Iomega
Jaz, Jaz 2
Portable drives holding 1 GB or 2 GB
Syquest
Sparq, Syjet
Makes various magneto-optical drives

In addition to the removable drives above, many manufacturers make tape backup drives. Tape backup drives use media similar to that of an audio cassette. The advantage to a tape backup drive is that it can hold enormous amounts of data (up to 16 GB each cartridge). But, with its capabilities, tape drives are very slow at accessing data. It is only useful for backup purposes.

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