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How many floppy disks will be equivalent to a hard disk of 450 GB?
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∙ 8y ago
Its an old square disc. You must be around 14 years young!
Alfonso Mills
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∙ 14y agoFor a standard IBM formatted double sided, high density 3.5" floppy diskette, the following properties apply:
- Data is recorded on two sides of the disk
- Each side has 80 tracks
- Each track has 18 sectors
- Each sector holds 512 bytes (0.5 KB)
While often labeled as 1.44MB, this is not an accurate statement of a floppy disk's capacity. This is due to the confusion between binary and decimal, where K can be 1,024 or 1,000 and M can be 1,048,576 or 1,000,000.
If calculated completely in binary, a floppy would hold 1.40625 MB, while if calculated completely in decimal, it would hold 1.47456 MB. Obviously marketing wouldn't like to use either of these numbers!
But by doing the first half of the calculation in binary (getting 1440 KB), and then treating that as a decimal number and incorrectly converting it to 1.44 MB, you get an easy to read number.
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∙ 14y agoMakimum storage for a 3.5" Floppy drive is 1,440,000 Bytes of data 1.44MB. Maximum storage on a 5.25" Floppy Disc is 760,000 Bytes of data (760KB). (Old-School 5.25" Floppys had a maximum of 360,000 Bytes (360KB).
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∙ 14y agoThere are no floppy disks in a hard drive.
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∙ 10y agohow many types of hard disk drive are available... IDE, SATA, SCSI, SATA2, SAS
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∙ 11y agoIf 1 terabyte = 1.048.578 MB then
1048576/1.44 = 728,177 floppy disks
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∙ 12y agoFloppy Do not come with Gigabytes storage capacity.
Floppy Disks are available only in Megabytes Storage variants.
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∙ 12y ago7
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What is the difference between hard disks and floppy disks?
hard disks are generally contains within the computer and contain FAR more memory than a floppy disk does. floppy disks generally contain 1.44 mb where as hard drives are constantly developing and are currently about 1TB MAX. floppy disks are external in the same way as CD's
How spins faster a hard disk or a floppy disk?
A modern hard disk will spin much faster than a floppy disk. A floppy disk will spin at around 300 RPM. A hard disk will vary depending on model and configuration. A mid range desktop hard disk will spin at around 7200RPM. Laptop hard disks usually run at slower speeds of 5400RMP. High end desktop and server hard disks can spin at speeds in excess of 10000RPM.
What where the sizes of the other two floppy disk?
The first floppy disks were 8" and 5 1/4 " The later 3 1/2 " disks weren'r really "floppy", they had a hard plastic "shell" ;-)
The memory devices of computers such as hard disks and floppy disk drives use materials to store data?
magnetic
What is The memory devices of computers such as hard disks and floppy disk drives use with materials to store data?
mass
Which device can read as well as write?
Floppy Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive, CD/DVD RW Disks, Pen Drive etc..
What are the major system files of Windows 95?
FAT12 for floppy disks FAT16 for Hard Disk FAT32 for Hard Disks VFAT (an overlay for FAT32) that allows long file names
Differences between a floppy disk and a hard disk?
A floppy disk is a flexible and magnetic data storage system that is removable from the computer that can store up to 3 megabytes of data. A hard disk on the other hand is the main place that a computer stores data. It is a rotating disk that uses magnetic patterns to store data. Floppy disks have been replaced by USB flash drives.These days (2012) you will not find many floppy disks (although just a couple of years ago we had to order special floppy drives for a server because some software would only be installed if it booted from Drive: A a floppy). There were 8 inch and 5 inch and 31/2 inch floppy disks which were common. The latest (diskettes) were the smallest and were protected by a hard plastic casing. Inside a thin Mylar disk coated with a magnetic surface stored the 1.44 Mb that was the capacity of most diskettes. Hard disks have one or more aluminium or glass disks coated with magnetic surfaces. These hold much more information and now (2012) there are units that can store 3Tb or more.
Does a floppy disk rotate faster than a hard disk?
no the floppy disk rotate slower its because hard disk rotate faster then floppy disk
How do zip superdisk and jaz disks compare to hard drives and floppy disks?
Zip,Super Disk, and Jaz drives hold large amounts of data and are portable.Floppy Disk and hard drives and notportableand cant hold that much data.
Secondary storage devices three secondary storage devices names?
hard disks, floppy disk, cd-rom.
What is function of floppy disk?
The floppy disk stores data. Before the days of large hard drives, flash disks, cds, and dvds this was the primary media for transporting data.For example if you wanted to install the old Windows 3.1x it came on a bundle of floppy disks. If you wanted to take a project from work or school back home, you used a floppy disk.
