There are a number of storage methods available to the user that fall between the removable media that is the floppy disk and the hard drive. One of the most popular is the Zip drive. Like floppies, it is a removable media, storing information upon its own cartridge shaped disks. These allow 100Mb of data to be stored and is available for a number of interfaces, SCSI, IDE and the PC's extended Parallel Port. (Please note. The Amiga cannot use the parallel port version.) The Zip has an advantage over other removable media as it is largely accepted in the computing world as a standard for transmitting large amounts of data.
If you want more than the 100MB storage of the Zip drive then you can go for the second most popular removable media, the Jaz drive. This gives the user 1Gb of information to play with, but at a cost. The cartridges themselves cost nearly £100 each. You will also need a SCSI connection, such as the Squirrel interface. However, as they are a removable storage media they are alot better than hard drives and can last a few years longer.
According to recent reports, some of the new Amigas may use the next storage method as standard. The LS120 gives 120Mb per disk, enough for the average user. Surprisingly, the disks look almost identical to ordinary floppies, but are slightly thicker. The drives can also be used to read High and Double Density floppies. This will save the manufacturer and the user considerable cost on the price of building and selling a machine.