What Is a Floppy Disk Drive?
A floppy disk drive is a device designed for reading from and writing to floppy disks.
These drives utilize floppy disks, a thin, circular piece of plastic coated with magnetic material for data storage. Floppy disk drives can be either integrated into a computer or connected as an external unit. When a disk is inserted, a read/write head within the drive engages the disk’s surface to access or modify data.
Historically, floppy disk drives were popular among individual users and businesses for their affordability and capacity to store a considerable amount of data, initially ranging from several kilobytes to a few megabytes.