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  2. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    8-, 5.25-, 3.5-, 2.5-, 1.8- and 1-inch HDDs, together with a ruler to show the length of platters and read-write heads A newer 2.5-inch (63.5 mm) 6,495 MB HDD compared to an older 5.25-inch full-height 110 MB HDD. IBM's first hard drive, the IBM 350, used a stack of fifty 24-inch platters and was of a size comparable to two large refrigerators.

  3. Drive bay - Wikipedia

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    The difference between those widths and the name of the bay size is because it is named after the size of floppy that would fit in those drives, a 5.25-inch-wide square. Half-height drive bays are 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (41.3 mm) high by 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (146.1 mm) wide, and are the standard housing for CD and DVD drives in modern computers.

  4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    Floppy disk size is often referred to in inches, even in countries using metric and though the size is defined in metric. The ANSI specification of 3½-inch disks is entitled in part "90 mm (3.5-inch)" though 90 mm is closer to 3.54 inches. [ 48 ]

  5. List of floppy disk formats - Wikipedia

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    Size Density Sides Tracks tpi bpi Sectoring Coercivity Unformatted capacity per side 2 inch Video Floppy: 52 256 >800 kB or 50 fields of analog video [1] 2 inch LT-1: double 80 245 2 1 ⁄ 2 inch: Single 16 [2] [3] 48 [2] 64 kB 3 inch QuickDisk: 3.25 inch single 1 80 [4] 140 4,625 250 kB double 9,250 500 kB 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch: Single 2: 40 [5] 67.5 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    By 2009, all manufacturers had discontinued the development of new products for the 1.3-inch, 1-inch and 0.85-inch form factors due to falling prices of flash memory, [127] [128] which has no moving parts. While nominal sizes are in inches, actual dimensions are specified in millimeters.

  8. History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    The actual disk diameter is 85.8 millimetres (3.38 in). The 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch disks had, by way of their rigid case's slide-in-place metal cover, the significant advantage of being much better protected against unintended physical contact with the disk surface than 5 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch disks when the disk was handled outside the disk drive. When the ...

  9. Display size - Wikipedia

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    The size of a screen is usually described by the length of its diagonal, which is the distance between opposite corners, typically measured in inches. It is also sometimes called the physical image size to distinguish it from the "logical image size," which describes a screen's display resolution and is measured in pixels. [1] [2]