Hardware - Peripherals
Storage Devices - Floppy Disk


A floppy disk is a thin magnetic-coated disk contained in a flexible or semi-rigid protective jacket.
Data is stored in tracks and sectors.


A 3.5" floppy disk

The floppy disks are usually 3.5" in size. However, older floppy disks may be in use; these would be 5.25" in size.

Double sided high density 3.5" disks can hold 1.44 Mb of data.

Once data is stored on a floppy disk it can be 'write protected' by clicking a tab on the disk. This prevents any new data being stored or any old data being erased.