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Floppy disk is not a common hardware device of a computer, but a storage device. Floppy disk is the earliest PC device to use removable backup storage device; floppy disk is read and written through floppy disk drive. Floppy disk drives are designed to receive removable floppy disks, which are currently commonly used as 3.5in floppy disks with a capacity of 1.4MB.

Floppy disk (Floppy Disk) is the earliest removable medium used in personal computer (PC). The reading and writing of floppy disk is done through floppy disk drive. Floppy disk drives are designed to receive removable floppy diskettes. At present, the commonly used floppy disk is the 3. 5-inch floppy disk with the capacity of 1.44MB, which was once very popular. After that, due to the emergence of U disk, the application of floppy disk gradually declined until it was eliminated.

Floppy disks are divided into eight-inch, five-and-a-four-inch and three-and-a-half-inch floppy disks, which are divided into hard magnetic regions and soft magnetic regions. Floppy disks are plastic sheets covered with magnetic paint and are used to store data files.

The storage format of floppy disk: refers to how many concentric circular tracks each side of the disk is divided into, and how many sectors each track is divided into to store information. The sector is the basic storage unit of the floppy disk, and each read and write to the disk is carried out in several sectors called "clusters".

Kinds

There are many kinds of computer floppy disks on the market, the commonly used ones are 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch, commonly known as 5-inch disk, 3-inch disk or large disk, small disk. The symbols on the disk generally have DS, DD, HD and so on. DS stands for two sides, D for low density, and HD for high density. It should be noted that low-density floppy drives cannot read and write high-density floppy disks, while high-density floppy drives can read and write low-density floppy disks.

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