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A hard-sectored floppy disk (5.25") has timing holes (typically ten) drilled through the disk at evenly-spaced intervals around the disk at the same radius as the index hole (which is one hole drilled between two of the timing holes). The timing holes indicate to the disk reader / writer / controller where the sectored are located on the floppy disk.
A soft-sectored floppy disk has a single index hole and no timing doles drilled in it. The spacing of the sectors is determined by set time intervals from the passage of the index hole as it rotates. For example if there are ten sectors each would be spaced at 1/10 of the time it takes the disk to rotate. The controller for a soft-sectored disk drive must be able to control speed and measure time more carefully than a hard-sectored disk drive. A soft-sectored disk can't be read or written by a hard-sectored disk drive (and vice versa) unless the disk controller has been written to deal with the different number of holes.
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What are diskettes?
A diskette is a removable storage device that is used in a floppy disk drive. It contains a plastic rotating disk, it is inside a shell. There were 2 main varieties, the 5.25 inch floppy and the 3.5 inch floppy. The 5.25" diskette truly was floppy. The disk is soft and inside a flexible shell, and you had to take care to never bend it. The 3.25" floppy was actually hard. The platter was more rigid and it was in a hard plastic shell.
Difference between hard and soft data?
Soft data is stored on a data disk or hard drive. Where as hard data is printed.
What are 3.25 inch or 5.25 inch diskettes?
Commonly known as floppy disks. These were preceded by 8" disks.These disks were either hard or soft sectored. The hard sectored disks had holes punched, either at the outside, or inside periphery to indicate the start of a sector.
What is the difference between a 'floppy' and a 'diskette'?
Floppy disks were an older technology then diskettes. They were computer storage disks encased in a soft plastic envelope (hence "floppy") that had a bigger diameter than the diskettes which were packaged in a hard plastic cartridge.
What is hard format and soft format?
hard sector formatting - sectors are separated and identified by physical notches or holes in the media that are detected optically, a counter register counts the pulses from the sensor and the number in this hardware register identifies the sector being read or written.soft sector formatting - sectors are separated and identified by coded address fields recorded on the media during formatting, as these address fields are created by the formatting software the sectors can be placed in any order (not just sequential as hard sector formatting does) around the tracks or skewed from track to track that might improve access time on a given system.Both systems usually have a single physical notch or hole in the media used to identify the beginning of track. On a hard sector formatting system the pulse from this resets the counter register to zero. On a soft sector formatting system this pulse may or may not be used, depending on system requirements (e.g. on floppy disks when the drive could accept either single or double sided disks this hole was in different positions and was detected by a different sensor for each type of disk).
What are the main types of magnetic storage devices?
Previous Answer: two types of magnetic disc are magnetic tapes and compact disc Actually neither of the above are correct. Magnetic "Tape" is exactly that it is a tape, a long slender ribbon which comes in two formats that I know of which are "cartridge" and "reel to reel". Compact Disk is an optical media. There are several types or formats of Magnetic Disk, sizes and capacities vary. Fixed Disk: Hard Disk otherwise referred to as HDD. It can have one or more disc platters made of aluminum alloy or glass with a thin magnetic layer bond. These magnetic disks or platters are sealed within the enclosure. Size 1.8", 2.5", 3.5", 5.25", 8", 12" Removable Media: Floppy Disk, removable disks that can be in a hard or soft shell enclosure. The disk itself is a plastic with a magnetic layer bond and is "floppy" one or both sides can be used depending on the disk. sizes range from 3.5", 5.25" to 8" Floptical, the likes of a floppy however one side is magnetic for storage, the other is optical for head positioning. Size, 3.5" Cartridge Disk, similar to the floppy or floptical but the cartridge actually contains a platter the likes of that within an HDD. Size 5.25", 8" that I know of.
Is a speaker hard copy or soft copy output?
A speaker may be a hard copy because a hard copy means that any information stored in a hard disk can not be destroyed or deleted and is digitally signed and in this case it is very usual for a speaker to be in connection with the hard disk since the data is first stored in to the hard disk.
Where is data stored on a computer?
There are multiple locations for which computing systems can store data. Internal storage includes the hard and soft disks, RAM, optical media, and external memory cards and USB devices. Additionally networks can also store, mirror, and backup the data from individual terminals and workstations onto in or off-site server arrays.
How does the output device on a computer work?
when any kind of information is received to you in any way weather hard disk or soft disk is known as output device .
Is the hard drive a disk drive?
Yes, a hard drive is more properly called a hard disk drive. They are not the same thing, but a hard disk drive is a type of disk drive, just like a floppy disk drive is another type, and just like a soft armor and hard armor are both types of armor. You can pretty much use "disk drive" and "drive" interchangeably in computer contexts. The most confusing thing about hard drives is that they contain fixed (non-removable) disks. You don't SEE the disk(s), because they're locked inside, and so you could easily wonder if it's actually a disk drive. Some people use hard drive and hard disk interchangeably, probably because they're not really sure what the difference is. Most of the time it really doesn't much matter much, but it's important to understand that there are other kinds of disk drives: floppy disk drives, tape drives, optical drives (CDs, Blu-ray discs, DVDs, etc.), magneto-optical disk drives (M-O drives) too. All of these tend to have removeable disks, which you can change. The drive stays, but the disks in it can be swapped around at will. They're called hard disk drives because the type of physical disk that spins around inside (the disks their motors DRIVE around) are hard, like an old style vinyl record (metal or ceramic coated with a magnetic material), rather than soft like a floppy disk (plastic with a similar material). Note that flash drives (aka USB drives, aka Pen Drives, etc., more properly called solid state drives) are another of the few drive types that have non-removable disks. They're subject to the same confusion that hard drives are subject to. In other words, a USB pen drive also has a USB disk within it. Generally they have four main parts if you open them up: the drive chip, the memory chip (disk), the USB connector itself, and the circuit board that links them all together. Might help to look inside an old one some time, just to be extra clear about how separate these things really are.
Why is the hard drive called c?
In the old days, computers had floppy drives. They usually had two, so you could put a program disk in drive A, and a data disk in drive B.Later computers kept two drives so they could support both formats: 5 1/4 inch, and 3 1/2 inches. By this time, hard drives were universal, and almost always installed as the C drive.AnswerOriginally, computers used floppy drives. The first drive was called "A:", then computers had 2 drives, A and B. Then... hard drives
Is brown soft or hard?
Hard
