Iomega Pocket Zip drive

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The PocketZip drive was a drive made by Iomega in 1999 that used only small, very thin, floppy-like 40MB disks. It was known as the "Clik!" drive until the click of death class action lawsuit regarding mass failures of Iomega's Zip drives. Henceforth, it was renamed to PocketZip. A 100 MB Pocket Zip drive version had been in the works, was intended to be backwards compatible with the 40 MB disks, but ended up being vaporware and PocketZip itself would be discontinued as well. The PocketZip drive was also available as a laptop PC card slot drive where it could compete with contemporary PC card, MicroDrive, CompactFlash and SmartMedia readers.

The format was used, for example, in the Iomega HipZip Digital Audio Player. The format saw use in a variety of other devices as well but proved to be a commercial failure. It suffered heavy competition from flash memory based memory cards. The PocketZip was electro-mechanical and, hence, was not as reliable as solid-state flash memory cards which have no moving parts.

Digital Capture Technology (DCT) with smaller disks and storage of 1.5 GB was rumored to be in the works in the early 2000s.