What is Floppy Disk Drive | Types of Floppy Disk | How Does a Floppy Disk Store Data

What is Floppy Disk Drive, Types of Floppy Disk, How Does a Floppy Disk Store Data, Computer Technology

A Floppy Disk Drive is a computer disk drive that enables a user to save data to removable diskettes.A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD).The floppy drive goes by other names too, like floppy disk drive, disk drive, floppy diskette, diskette drive, 3.5" drive, and 5.25" drive.Data is generally written to floppy disks in sectors (angular blocks) and tracks (concentric rings at a constant radius). For example, the HD format of 3½-inch floppy disks uses 512 bytes per sector, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and two sides, for a total of 1,474,560 bytes per disk.Although 8-Inch disk drives were first made available in 1971, the first real disk drives used were the 5 ¼-Inch floppy disk drives, which were later replaced with the 3 ½ Inch floppy disk drives.A 5 ¼-Inch floppy disk was capable of storing between 360 KB and 1.2 MB of data.The 3 ½-Inch floppy disk was capable of storing between 360 KB and 1.44 MB of data. For both sizes of floppy disk, the amount of data that could be stored was dependent on whether the disk was single or double sided and whether the disk was regular or high density.The floppy disk holds an astonishingly tiny amount of data when compared to newer technologies like SD cards, flash drives, and discs.Most floppy disks can only support 1.44 MB of data, which is smaller than the average picture.Today, due to their extremely limited capacity, computers no longer come equipped with floppy disk drives. This technology has largely been replaced with CD-R, DVD-R, and flash drives.A floppy disk is a magnetic media and stores and reads data on the floppy disk using a read head.The read/write head uses a magnetic polarity of 0 or 1. Reading this as binary data, the computer can understand
what the data is on the platter. For the computer to write information to the platter, the read/write head aligns the magnetic polarities, writing 0's and 1's that can be read later.

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[kingofsauce]

When I was little, my dad's job was a lot to deal with floppy disks
So I had like hundreds of disks just lying here there near our pc
They were like so fun to mess around with and were a hundred percent my favourite toy

[dntreply]

i remember getting pokemon blue on floppy disk. so many happy memories playing that on a big monitor while everyone was still on their small gameboys.

[lozD]

1:28 That is an image of the back of a 3 1/2" Floppy disk... it's not a 5 1/4" floppy disk. But you can see one at 2:35

[lozD]

2:50 At this point, you are showing images of a Hard Disc Drive (HDD) rather than a Floppy Disc Drive (FDD). Bit misleading

[drrobotnikmeanbeanma]

Is there some floppy disk drive that i can put a cd in, to download music on it ???

[RangerAlone]

Looking at a floppy disk with 750kb storage and then on a Micro SD card with over 500gb. We have come a long way.

[milyonarefayne]

What's your location bro I wanted buy floppy disk 3.5

[hhhclte]

I feel kinda stupid for having to watch this because i had no idea what floppy disks ever really were lol.

[jassimsalam]

If you searched for this video, don't call me an old man! I'm not old, I'm only 27!!! 😭😭😭

[HD-hyxy]

coincidentally i hate this video now. my teacher just made me do this