Floppy disk

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• A thin magnetic film disk that is used as an older method for storing data.^[1]

• Small removable disks, also known as diskettes, that come in two sizes, 3.5” and 5.25”. The amount of data that can be stored on a diskette depends on the size, and can be 360 kilobytes to 1.4 megabytes.^[2]

• An increasingly rare storage medium consisting of a thin magnetic film disk housed in a protective sleeve.^[3]

See also

• CD
• CD-R
• CD-ROM
• CD-RW
• Disc
• Diskette
• Disk
• DVD
• DVD-ROM
• Floppy disk
• Hard disk
• Hard drive
• Jaz disk
• Magnetic disk
• Magnetic storage media
• Media
• Optical disk
• Storage media
• WORM disk
• Zip disk

Footnotes

1. ^  Vinson & Elkins LLP Practice Support, EDD Glossary.
2. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
3. ^  Kroll Ontrack, Glossary of Terms, http://www.krollontrack.com/glossaryterms.