USB Floppy Drive

USB Floppy Drive

USB Floppy Drive

A floppy disk is a data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible ("floppy") magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell. Originally announced as the "Type 1 Diskette" by IBM in 1973, the industry then adopted the terms "floppy disk" or "floppy".

Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive or FDD, the initials of which should not be confused with "fixed disk drive", which is another term for a (nonremovable) type of hard disk drive. Invented by the American information technology company IBM, floppy disks in 8inch, 5 inch and 3 inch forms enjoyed nearly three decades as a popular and ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange, from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. While floppy disk drives still have some limited uses, especially with legacy industrial computer equipment, they have now been superseded by USB flash drives, external hard disk drives, CDs, DVDs, and memory cards.

If you have an old floppy drive that you would like to use through your universal serial bus (USB) ports on your computer, you will need an appropriate adapter cable. These cables enable Serial ATA (SATA) or integrated drive electronics (IDE) devices to be accessed through USB ports. They can be obtained from many electronic components supply stores. An old floppy drive is likely to be an IDE device, so be sure the cable you purchase has an IDE adapter. Once you acquire the adapter, using your floppy drive through a USB port is a cinch.

Floppy sizes are almost universally referred to in imperial measurements, even in countries where metric is the standard, and even when the size is in fact defined in metric (for instance the 3-inch floppy, which is actually 90mm). Formatted capacities are generally set in terms of Kilobytes (1024 bytes, as 1 sector is generally 512 bytes), written as "KB".

A USB floppy disk drive can be disconnected from the computer when not needed. It also can be shared with other computers in your home or office. Many laptop manufacturers have proprietary floppy disk drives available as an accessory to the laptop. These floppy disk drives can cost twice the amount of a USB floppy disk drive. A USB model can be used on any computer that has a USB port, making the proprietary version unnecessary. A USB floppy drive is a one-time purchase. It can be used for the computer you have today as well as any computer you purchase in the future.

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