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2. Zip drive - Wikipedia

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   The Zip drive is a "superfloppy" disk drive that has all of the standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy drive's convenience, but with much greater capacity options and with performance that is much improved over a standard floppy drive. However, Zip disk housings are similar to but slightly larger than those of standard 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disks. [2]

3. Floppy disk variants - Wikipedia

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   A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...

4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   The unformatted capacity of a floppy disk does not include the sector and track headings of a formatted disk; the difference in storage between them depends on the drive's application. Floppy disk drive and media manufacturers specify the unformatted capacity (for example, 2 MB for a standard 3½-inch HD floppy).

5. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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   Zip drive (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology) PocketZip (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology) SuperDisk (floppy-like with drives also compatible with 3.5" floppy disks) Magneto-optical drive (floppy-like, but incompatible medium using different technology)

6. Disk storage - Wikipedia

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   Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD), containing one or more non-removable rigid platters; 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 disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g., the Compact Disc ...

7. Floppy disk format - Wikipedia

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   Since their introduction, there have been many popular and rare floppy disk types, densities, and formats used in computing, leading to much confusion over their differences. In the early 2000s, most floppy disk types and formats became obsolete, leaving the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disk, using an IBM PC compatible format of 1440 KB, as the only ...

8. Computer data storage - Wikipedia

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   In modern personal computers, most secondary and tertiary storage media are also used for off-line storage. Optical discs and flash memory devices are the most popular, and to a much lesser extent removable hard disk drives; older examples include floppy disks and Zip disks.

9. Parallel ATA - Wikipedia

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   Some operating systems required code changes to support floppy disks with capacities far larger than any standard floppy disk drive. Also, standard-floppy disk drive emulation proved to be unsuitable for certain high-capacity floppy disk drives such as Iomega Zip drives. Later the ARMD-HDD, ARMD-"Hard disk device", variant was developed to ...