What are the parts of a floppy disk?

A floppy disk, like a cassette tape, is made from a thin piece of plastic coated with a magnetic material on both sides. However, it is shaped like a disk rather than a long thin ribbon. The tracks are arranged in concentric rings so that the software can jump from "file 1" to "file 19" without having to fast forward through files 2-18. read more

Floppy disk drive - The electromechanical device that reads and writes floppy disks. Track - Concentric ring of data on a side of a disk. Sector - A subset of a track, similar to wedge or a slice of pie. read more

Floppy disk drive is a storage device, used to store data in floppy disks. The capacity of floppy disks to store data is low as compared to hard disk drive or SSD. The FDD is not used in latest desktop home computers but it is still used in some older industrial machines. read more