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Why is mean to say that floppy disk drives usually are downward compatible but not upward compatible?
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∙ 13y ago
It means floppy drives that are built for higher capacities, or with newer technologies can also read floppy drives with older technologies/less storage. But not vice versa.
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What is the floppy drive usually referred to as?
Floppy disk drives, or just floppy disks. Nothing special.
The floppy drive is usually located in?
A pile of other floppy drives because they are completely redundant these days, but still have their uses from time to time, usually for boot based repairs.
How many floppy drives does a computer have?
Computers made today generally do not have any floppy drives at all. PCs traditionally had 2 floppy drives (A: and B:) but might have only one of these. The original Mac had 1 floppy drive. Early microcomputers could frequently have as many as 4 floppy drives. (I had one with this capability but I never connected more than 3 floppy drives, these were 8 inch double sided double density drives).
What are floppy diskette drives?
Floppy diskette drives read and write information to a single rotating disk that can be removed from the drive.
Floppy disk disadvantages?
Mainly lack of capacity. A floppy disk is usually 1.44 MB. Modern flash drives, hard drives, etc. are in the gigabytes and terabytes ! You can still use a floppy drive (I have a USB external floppy drive), but it will become more difficult to get new floppy disks as manufacturers abandon a rather antiquated media.
What do hard drives floppy drives and Zip drives have in common?
They all store information.
Are catridge drives better than floppy disc for storing files?
Yes, floppy drives are a thing of the past, they are small and easily corrupted.
How many floppy drives does your system have?
Most modern computers do not have any floppy drives at all. Ones made before 2001 generally had one. Two floppy drives was common only in very old computers with no fixed storage device.
What type of drives record data on removable floppy disks?
Not sure what you're looking for here. We always just called them 'floppy disk drives.'
Who manufactures floppy disk drives?
Floppy disk drives are or have been manufactured by a number of companies. These include Sony, Imation, Panasonic, Mitsumi, NEC, and Samsung.
Use USB floppy drive to make USB hard drive?
This simply isn't possible. Hard drives and floppy drives work in very different ways.
How to communicate with a laptop having no floppy drive or CD ROM?
If it has a USB port, you can use memory sticks/flash drives. I don't know of any laptops that don't have floppy drives, zip drives, CD ROM drives or USB ports.
