Another solution which is gaining popularity is to use software which connects to the Internet in the background, or late at night, and grabs complete web pages and even their HTML links. Then when you view the sites, you will actually be looking at your hard disk. There are several Shareware offerings. For portable uses, the drives can be connected to the parallel port. This means that one drive can be used with several different computers.
Internal drives become part of the computer.
Both types of drive assume a drive letter and can be accessed in the same way as a floppy or hard disk. The Zip drive uses floppy drive technology and storage per disk is 100 Megs. The Jaz drive is much faster as it is a removable hard disk. You can also get a SCSI card from Iomega which allows external drive connections. It is difficult to make a recommendation unless the exact use is known.