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Computer storage bus
generation of floppy disk drive (FDD) began with a variety of incompatible interfaces but soon evolved into one de facto standard interface for the generations
Floppy_disk_drive_interface
rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD). Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into
History_of_the_floppy_disk
Removable disk storage medium
dust from the spinning disk. Floppy disks store digital data, which can be read or written when inserted into a floppy disk drive (FDD) connected to or
Floppy_disk
common generations of floppy disks (and drives), many other floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout
Floppy_disk_variants
Circuitry that controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive
A floppy disk controller (FDC) is a hardware component that directs and controls reading from and writing to a computer's floppy disk drive (FDD). It
Floppy_disk_controller
Data storage device
Common uses of USB flash drives are for storage, supplementary back-ups, and transferring of computer files. Compared with floppy disks or CDs, they are smaller
USB_flash_drive
External floppy disk drive by Apple
The Macintosh External Disk Drive is the original model in a series of external 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk drives manufactured and sold by Apple Computer exclusively
Macintosh_External_Disk_Drive
Computer storage interface standard
hard drives and CD or DVD drives. The connection is used for computer storage such as hard disks, high-capacity floppy disk variants, optical disks, and
Parallel_ATA
General category of storage mechanisms
the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical disc media. (The spelling disk and
Disk_storage
Floppy disk or optical disk drive made by Apple
SuperDrive is the product name for a floppy disk drive and later an optical disc drive made and marketed by Apple Inc. The name was initially used for
SuperDrive
Storage medium from Imation
those used in traditional floppy disk drives. Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. The idea eventually
SuperDisk
Floppy disk drive for the Apple II computer
The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike
Disk_II
Professional computer backup device
high-capacity floppy disks with 100 MB nominal capacity, and later 250 and then 750 MB, the company developed and released the Jaz drive. First shipping
Jaz_drive
A floppy disk hardware emulator or semi-virtual diskette (SVD) is a device that emulates a floppy disk drive with a solid state or network storage device
Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
Process of preparing a data storage device for initial use
Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash
Disk_formatting
Electro-mechanical data storage device
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data
Hard_disk_drive
RAM used to emulate secondary storage
RAM drive is generally orders of magnitude faster than other forms of digital storage, such as SSD, tape, optical, hard disk, and floppy drives. This
RAM_drive
Removable cartridge disk storage system
dissimilar technology. The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has some of the standard 3½-inch floppy disk drive's convenience, but with much greater
Zip_drive
invention of the floppy disk drive, various standardized form factors have been used in computing systems. Standardized form factors and interface allow a variety
List of disk drive form factors
List_of_disk_drive_form_factors
Disk interface for ZX Spectrum computers
The Beta Disk Interface handles single- and double-sided, 40- or 80-track double-density floppy disks, and up to four drives. This interface was popular
Beta_Disk_Interface
Hard disk drive
disk drives introduced by Seagate in 1980 and 1981 respectively, that later became construed as hard disk drive interfaces: the ST-506 disk interface
ST-506/ST-412
First Macintosh hard drive developed by Apple
SCSI interface introduced on the Macintosh Plus in January 1986, would accommodate far faster and more efficient hard drives, rendering the Hard Disk 20
Hard_Disk_20
Removable floppy disk storage system
standard 5¼-inch floppy disk. The Bernoulli Box II was initially released with just a 20 MB capacity, but was quickly followed up by drives with capacities
Bernoulli_Box
1977 microcomputer by Tandy Corporation
can be expanded with up to 48 KB of RAM, and up to four floppy disk drives and/or hard disk drives. Tandy/Radio Shack provided full-service support including
TRS-80
Data storage device
the early days of home computing, floppy and hard disk drives were very expensive. Many computers had an interface to store data via an audio tape recorder
Tape_drive
The MSD Super Disk were a series of 5¼-inch floppy disk drives compatible to some degree with the Commodore 1541 disk drive, produced by Micro Systems
MSD_Super_Disk
Removable disk from which a computer can boot an operating system
data floppies could have a virus written to their first sector which silently infects the host computer if switched on with the disk in the drive. Bootable
Boot_disk
Controller for disk storage, usually integrated into the drive
A disk controller is a controller circuit that enables a CPU to communicate with a hard disk, floppy disk or other kind of disk drive. It also provides
Disk_controller
Operating system focused on disk-based file operations
A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that requires a hard disk (HDD), floppy disk, solid-state drive (SSD), or other direct-access
Disk_operating_system
Standard-sized area for adding drives or other hardware to a computer
disk drives and floppy disk drives. This form factor is obsolete, a famous example being the Shugart SA1000 winchester drive. Later models of floppy drives
Drive_bay
Floppy drive by Apple
FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems
Apple_FileWare
magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD)
History of IBM magnetic disk drives
History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives
BIOS interrupt call for disk access
interrupt handler at this vector that provides sector-based hard disk and floppy disk read and write services using cylinder-head-sector (CHS) addressing
INT_13H
United States, the 1541 floppy disk drive was widespread. By contrast, in Europe, the C64 was often used with cassette tape drives (Datasette), which were
Commodore_64_peripherals
Method to write software to floppy disk
connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB, and software for accessing the device. KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very
KryoFlux
Computer storage device with no moving parts
solid-state disk. Etymologically, "solid-state drive" partly refers to existing data storage devices like tape drives and hard disk drives, which all use
Solid-state_drive
Family of standardized home computer architectures released between 1983 and 1992
(the floppy disk drive interface), connected to an external case with the drive. In South America, many of these systems used a 5.25 in (133 mm) floppy disk
MSX
1977–1993 series of microcomputers
5+1⁄4-inch floppy drive and 128 KB RAM, with a built-in disk controller that could control external drives, composite video (NTSC or PAL), serial interfaces for
Apple_II
Floppy disk drive
The Triton Quick Disk Drive is a product that allows 2.8-inch floppy disks to be read on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Mattel Aquarius and Dragon
Triton_Quick_Disk_Drive
Logical or physical division of storage media
fixed amount of user-accessible data, traditionally 512 bytes for hard disk drives (HDDs), and 2048 bytes for CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs and BD-ROMs. Newer HDDs
Disk_sector
are 5¼-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Commodore International, primarily for its 8-bit CBM and PET series of computers. The drives offered improved
Commodore_8050
File format representing a virtual hard disk drive
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical
VHD_(file_format)
variety of compatible software. Many of the adapters interface with the original serial bus disk drive plug or the C2N tape. Others connect to either the
Commodore 64 disk and tape emulation
Commodore_64_disk_and_tape_emulation
the Amiga computer. DMS creates a compressed image of an entire floppy disk. The disk is read block-by-block, and thus its data structure is maintained
Disk_Masher_System
single-unit 5¼" floppy disk drives for Commodore International computers. They use a similar steel case form to the Commodore 9060/9090 hard disk drives, and use
Commodore_2031
Set of computer and peripheral connection standards
disk drive and were usually physically mounted to the drive's chassis. SASI, which was used in mini- and early microcomputers, defined the interface as
SCSI
Type of floppy disk drive
type of floppy disk drive that combines magnetic and optical technologies to store data on media similar to standard 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disks. The name
Floptical
expensive floppy disk drives or even cassette tape drives as both secondary storage and transport media. However, by the late 1980s, hard disk drives were
History_of_hard_disk_drives
Floppy disk drive interface manufactured by Prológica,
CP 450 was a large cabinet containing a floppy disk drive interface for the CP 400, manufactured by Prológica, a computer company located in Brazil. The
CP-450
Computer file with a storage device's contents
frequently use disk images to emulate floppy disks that have been preserved. This is usually simpler to program than accessing a real floppy drive (particularly
Disk_image
Israeli electronics company
flash memory as a disk drive to the computer. They also produced flash solid state drives for PATA, SATA, SCSI and SAS interfaces. After 17 years of
M-Systems
Microcomputer released in 1982
install a disk controller with one or two internal 3.5" disk drives (the base system did not include a floppy disk controller or disk drives). The internal
Sony_SMC-70
Commodore floppy disk drive
floppy disk drive that was released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) in 1987, primarily for its C64 and C128 home/personal computers. The drive stores
Commodore_1581
First sector of partitioned PC computer disk
Torito specification may contain disk images mounted by the BIOS to occur as floppy or superfloppies on this interface. DL values of 0x00 and 0x01 may
Master_boot_record
Disk compression utility
data on-the-fly. It is primarily intended for use with hard drives, but use for floppy disks is also supported. This feature was removed in Windows XP.
DriveSpace
First model of Apple's Macintosh computer line
single-sided 3+1⁄2-inch floppy disk drive, with no provision for additional internal storage such as a hard drive or a second floppy disk drive. Its capacity exceeded
Macintosh_128K
8-bit home computer introduced in 1982
and one integrated 1541 floppy disk drive. Even though Commodore claimed in advertisements that it would have dual 1541 drives, when the SX-64 was released
Commodore_64
Floppy disk drive
Commodore 1571 is Commodore's high-end 5¼" floppy disk drive, announced in the summer of 1985. With its double-sided drive mechanism, it has the ability to use
Commodore_1571
Protocol that carries SCSI commands over Parallel ATA
ATA interface. ATAPI devices include CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, CompactFlash drives, and large-capacity floppy drives
ATAPI
time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces. Micropolis's first advance
Micropolis_Corporation
Historical method for giving addresses to physical data blocks on hard disk drives
method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. It is a 3D-coordinate system made out of a vertical coordinate head,
Cylinder-head-sector
Personal computer by Apple
compact Macintosh and the last desktop Macintosh to include an external floppy disk drive port. Apple discontinued support for the Classic II on January 1,
Macintosh_Classic_II
IBM PC compatible home computer system
peripheral interfaces, including game ports compatible with those on the TRS-80 Color Computer, an IBM-standard floppy-disk controller supporting two drives, and
Tandy_1000
File format developed by Apple and used by macOS
compression of floppy disk images is called DART. New Disk Image Format (NDIF) was the previous default disk image format in Mac OS 9, and disk images with
Apple_Disk_Image
Floppy disk drive for the Commodore 64
floppy disk drive which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore's most popular home computer. The best-known floppy
Commodore_1541
to access a wide variety of older or non-native disk formats using standard floppy drives. The floppy controller chip used in IBM PCs and compatibles
Individual Computers Catweasel
Individual_Computers_Catweasel
Circular disk on which magnetic data is stored in a hard disk drive
(as opposed to the flexible materials which are used to make floppy disks). Hard drives typically have several platters which are mounted on the same
Hard_disk_drive_platter
Second model of Apple's Macintosh computer line
800 KB floppy disk drive as well as the Hard Disk 20, the first Macintosh hard disk from Apple, attaching to the floppy disk port. The Hard Disk 20 required
Macintosh_512K
Way to specify the location of data on computer storage devices
when the IBM PC had only floppy disk storage, and when hard disk drives were introduced on the IBM PC/XT, INT 13h interface could not be practically redesigned
Logical_block_addressing
Technology for maintenance of file systems
on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over
Defragmentation
Disk cloning and backup tool
available on floppy disks made disk cloning of several different disk controllers a difficult task, where different SCSI, USB, and CD-ROM drives were involved
Ghost_(disk_utility)
Firmware for hardware initialization and OS runtime services
first floppy disk drive or the first hard disk drive, even if there were two drives installed. On the original IBM PC and XT, if no bootable disk was found
BIOS
Hard disk monitoring software
Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a computer hard disk drive-monitoring software for Windows, Linux and DOS operating systems. Hard Disk Sentinel was
Hard_Disk_Sentinel
storage interface controller on CPU or chipset, the flash memory controller on solid state drive, or the disk controller on hard disk drive. In history
Storage_controller
Floppy disk drive for the Commodore C-16 and Plus/4
The Commodore 1551 (originally introduced as the SFS 481) is a floppy disk drive for the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 home computers. It resembles a charcoal-colored
Commodore_1551
Floppy disk drive
The XF551 is a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drive produced by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 8-bit computers. Introduced in 1987, it matches the gray design language
Atari_XF551
Type of computer disk storage drive
disc and to record discs for archival and data exchange purposes. Floppy disk drives, with capacity of 1.44 MB, have been made obsolete: optical media
Optical_disc_drive
Microsoft computer operating system
number when formatting hard disks and floppy disks (Disk duplication also and when using SYS to make a floppy disk or a hard drive partition bootable); Release
MS-DOS
Data storage device
combines a faster storage medium such as solid-state drive (SSD) with a higher-capacity hard disk drive (HDD). The intent is adding some of the speed of SSDs
Hybrid_drive
Z80-based single-board computer
memory, disk drive interface, keyboard and video monitor interface. The printed circuit board was sized to match the Shugart 801 or 851 floppy drive. This
Ferguson_Big_Board
American computer peripheral manufacturer
that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5+1⁄4-inch "Minifloppy" floppy disk drive. In 1979 it was
Shugart_Associates
Windows utility which defragments a hard drive
Microsoft Drive Optimizer (formerly Disk Defragmenter) is a utility in Microsoft Windows designed to increase data access speed by rearranging files stored
Microsoft_Drive_Optimizer
Higher performance in hard disk drives comes from devices which have better performance characteristics. These performance characteristics can be grouped
Hard disk drive performance characteristics
Hard_disk_drive_performance_characteristics
Computer released in 1984
unreliable hard disk drive, the high-density floppy disk drives turned out to be problematic. Some ATs came with one high-density (HD) disk drive and one double-density
IBM_Personal_Computer_AT
Encoding methods for representing data on magnetic media
was working on large hard drives for the mainframe business using group coding. Like magnetic tape drives, floppy disk drives have physical limits on the
Group_coded_recording
Line of home computers from Atari Corporation
double-sided floppy disk drive, but without RF modulator 1040STFM a 520STFM with 1 MB of RAM and a built-in double-sided floppy disk drive with RF modulator
Atari_ST
Personal computer by Apple Inc.
computer shipped with two "Twiggy" floppy disk drives along with Lisa OS and office productivity software. The interface included a detached keyboard, a
Apple_Lisa
American data storage company
forward integration was the FD1771, one of the first single-chip floppy disk drive formatter/controllers, which could replace significant amounts of
Western_Digital
A self-booting disk is a floppy disk for home computers or personal computers that starts up directly into a standalone application when the system is
Self-booting_disk
Fourth model Apple II computer model
version of the Apple IIe, integrating a keyboard and a 5+1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive into a compact housing with a built-in carrying handle. It weighs
Apple_IIc
Connector type for Atari computers
parallel port, floppy drive interface and a built-in menu system. SupraDrive - an early SCSI disk drive. Karin Maxi, a parallel floppy disk drive. KMK/JŻ IDE
Parallel_Bus_Interface
Historically floppy disks came in 8-inch, 5.25-inch, and 3.5-inch sizes, with the latter being by far the most ubiquitous. floppy disk drive A device for
Glossary of computer hardware terms
Glossary_of_computer_hardware_terms
Digital musical instrument
a hard drive and load them with way faster times than the standard 3.5 inch floppy disks, and, of course, more storage than the floppy disks. This expansion
Ensoniq_ASR-10
Specialized casing
A disk enclosure or desktop hard drive is a specialized casing designed to hold and power hard disk drives or solid-state drives while providing a mechanism
Disk_enclosure
1982 DEC microcomputer
memory was due to the difference in initial memory configuration. The floppy disk drives, known as the RX50, accepted proprietary 400 KB single-sided, quad-density
Rainbow_100
Programming language
user interface invoked by the BIOS through INT 18h if there was no floppy disk drive installed or if the boot code did not find a bootable floppy disk at
IBM_BASIC
Storage mechanism for IBM PCs
Model 104 which shipped without a floppy disk drive. The IBM PCjr was also seldom sold without a floppy disk drive, but it also had two ROM cartridge
IBM_cassette_tape
File system used by MS-DOS and Windows 9x
developed in 1977 for use on floppy disks, it was adapted for use on hard disks and other devices. The increase in disk drive capacity over time drove modifications
File_Allocation_Table
Computer bus interface for storage devices
interface announced in 2000 that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives.
SATA
Free virtualization and emulation software
Bochs Extensions Two IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support Floppy disk drive NE2000 network adapter Serial interface PREP non-volatile RAM PC-compatible
QEMU
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