Floppy Disk Drives

3 1/2 inch

5 1/4 inch

8 inch

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders. A device that stores computer data on magnetic tape is a tape drive.

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Tape remains a viable alternative to disk in some situations due to its lower cost per bit. This is a large advantage when dealing with large amounts of data. Though the areal density of tape is lower than for disk drives, the available surface area on a tape is far greater. The highest capacity tape media are generally on the same order as the largest available disk drives (about 5 TB in 2011). Tape has historically offered enough advantage in cost over disk storage to make it a viable product, particularly for backup, where media removability is necessary.

5.25" floppy disks were available in a large number of storage capacities. These include 110 KB, 360 KB (DD), 720 KB (QD), and 1.2 MB (HD). There were also a couple non-standard formats that went all the way up to 100 MB.

Data can be easily loss when floppy disc is placed near a source of magnet or radio wave interference.

Using binary code. A sequence of "0's" and "1's".

That depends what the disk is forming round. If it is a large black hole it will form a quasar, if it is round a star, it will form planets (a solar system).

If question is meant to be aimed at a basic level, you could simply go onto the image search engine: http://images.google.com/imghp?

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No. Its is just a storage device. All the processing is done my the CPU.

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Drives which are 5.25 inch, 3.5 inch, or 3 inch use +5 volts and (for the 5.25 inch drives) +12 volts. 8-inch drives use +5V, +24V, and in many cases 110VAC 60Hz for the spindle motors.

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A few years ago, before there were CDs and USB flashdrives, data to be stored on removable media was stored on "floppies" the most recent of these was square three and a half inches on an edge (hence the 3.5 name) about one tenth of an inch thick stiff plastic case surrounding a flimsy (hence the name "floppy") magnetically covered mylar disc. These were most commonly formatted to hold 1.44Mb (there are a huge number of formats, sizes etc. for removable media look it up on Wikipedia)

Laserdisc technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg in 1958 (and patented in 1961 and 1990).

Formerly they had, but nowadays when compared to pendrives they have a small storage capacity, do not surpassing 700 MB. The tendency of storing devices is directed to pendrives due to their inumerous advantages.

A standard 3.5" floppy disk holds significantly less than a gigabyte. As a fraction, a floppy holds about 1/711 of a gigabyte.

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FDD is an acronym for Floppy Disk Drive. For a short time, external floppy drives were available with special-purpose connectors. This was quickly superseded by USB ports.

this changes with time. currently average storage of a hard disk is about 250 GB when purchasing a new computer. The highest amount of space I have seen on a new hard drive is 1.5 TB (that's 1024 GB * 1.5) and the smallest I have seen is down to a few MB (1024 MB = 1 GB) but that's for a very very old hard disk.

For you to write to a disk, the write-protect notch must be closed.

A regular CD-R has a capacity of 700 megabytes or 80 minutes of music in audio format. Some discs have a lower capacity of 74 or 63 minutes, although these are rare.

The small capacity of floppy disks, compared to the ever-expanding size of files, makes them impractical for most uses. Plus, there are many much better alternatives available (USB drives, CD-R, etc.). Diskette drives are becoming rare on Windows computers, as well. Macintosh computers were just ahead of their time, as usual!

Data can be stored on a floppy disk, since that is what they are designed for. As for whether it can be "received" on one, that is a pretty vague question, as it doesn't address HOW the data is received.

your power supply has a small plug attach to it with several larger ones that go to your cdrom and hard drive it will fit in to the back of your floppy