Types of Floppy Disk Drives

Floppy disk drives are available in different sizes. The floppy disk drive shares the name with the size of the floppy disk that it uses. For example, the floppy disk drive that uses the 3.5 inch floppy disk is called the 3.5 inch floppy disk drive.

5.25 Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Older systems used the 5.25 inch floppy disk drive to read and write data to the 5.25 inch floppy disk. This drive has a lever on the front of the drive that must be turned clockwise, to lock the floppy disk in after inserting the disk in the drive. You must turn the lever anti-clockwise to remove the floppy disk from the drive.

3.5 Inch Floppy Disk Drive

The 3.5 inch floppy disk drive can read and write data to the 3.5 inch floppy disk. The 3.5 inch floppy drive spins the floppy disk at a speed of 300 rotations per minute. This enables the floppy to be formatted with 80 tracks on each side of the disk. Each track is alienated into 18 sectors. The sector can hold 512 bytes. The 3.5 inch floppy disk drive also has an eject button that is used to remove the floppy disk from the drive.

The 3.5 inch floppy drive spins the floppy disk at a speed of 300 rotations per minute. This enables the floppy to be formatted with 80 tracks on each side of the disk. Each track is separated into 18 sectors. The sector can hold 512 bytes. The 3.5 inch floppy disk drive also has a button that is used to remove the floppy disk from the drive.

. The 3.5 inch floppy had a high density and could hold 720 KB of data. The floppy disk was then improved and the density increased to create a high-density floppy disk that could hold 1.44 MB of data. The 3.5 inch floppy disk was then improved and the double-sided floppy disk was created that could store data on both sides of the floppy disk.

The 3.5 inch floppy disk has two holes at the bottom of the disk. One enables the floppy disk drive to identify if the floppy disk has a low density or high density. The other is a write protect tab of the floppy disk. This tab enables us to protect the data on the floppy disk from being accidentally modified or erased. Sliding the switch down makes the floppy disk read only. You must slide the switch upward to enable data to be read and written to the floppy disk.

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