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FLOPPY DRIVE

Floppy Drives now almost obsolete Much like a Hard Drive or CD/DVD/CDRW/DVD‐R Drive, a Floppy Drive stores information on a recording medium, usually a thin plastic 3.5ʺ Floppy Disk. The floppy drive comes in a rectangular plastic box with a loading slot at the front and a large ejection button, and plugs into the floppy controller on the motherboard. Floppy drives can read from and write information to floppy disks, but are incredibly slow compared to any other form of drive, and also hold very little information (1.44MB) and hence are not commonly used anymore. Most PCs retain a floppy drive for emergency use when Windows won’t load up for example, or to flash the BIOS.

Again, in human body terms a floppy drive is like a library, with the floppy disks a document or notepad for reading from and writing to.  