Floppy Disk Drive

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Floppy disk drive is a disk drive where a floppy disk is inserted. It is a data storage device that is composed of a circular piece of a thin, flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet. Floppy drives are read and written by a floppy disk drive. Disk drives floppy can be used to transfer information from one computer to another, install new software, or back up a small amount of files. This is accomplished by temporarily inserting the floppy disk into the disk drive. The first floppy drives used an 8-inch disk which later got smaller into 5.25-inch and was called diskette. The 5.25-inch disk held 360 kilobytes compared to the 1.44 megabyte capacity of today's 3.5-inch diskette. Most personal computers have one or more floppy disk drive installed. On a PC the first drive is called the A: drive and if a second is fitted, this is called the B: drive. The major part of floppy disk drive include Read/Write heads, Drive motor, Stepper motor, Mechanical frame, and Circuit board.