Computer memory devices

Floppy disks.

• Floppy disks are placed in a plastic case. This storage medium is called a floppy disk. The diskette is inserted into a disk drive that rotates the disk at a constant angular velocity. The magnetic head of the drive is installed on a certain concentric track of the disc, on which information is written (or read).
• The information capacity of the floppy disk is small and amounts to only 1.44 MB. The speed of writing and reading information is also slow (about 50 Kb / s) due to the slow rotation of the disk (360 rpm).
• In order to preserve information, flexible magnetic disks should be protected from strong magnetic fields and heat, as this can lead to demagnetization of the medium and loss of information.