As someone who didn’t grow up with floppy disks, why were floppy drives topping out at a few megabytes, but Zip drives managed a hundred in the same size? It’s quite a jump in capacity.
I remember repairing discs by swapping to the shell of a new one when something like the mini spring broke.
I think the Zip used more of a brown plastic type of disk. The loading was more of a low chunck-chunck sound.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
2: The technical reason why these disks could have higher density was due to being able to use optical elements as a servo-mechanism, rather than just using dead-reckoning like a floppy would. This required the disk to be printed with marks that had high contrast in the infrared range.