COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
COMPUTER MEMORY AND PROCESSING DEVICES
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3.5 inch
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5.25 inch
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Both of the above
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today, the most commonly used floppy disks are 3.5 inches and have the capacity of 800 KB to 2.8 MB (with a standard of 1.44 MB).
Detailed explanation-2: -3.5-inch inch floppy disk drive The 3.5-inch format was the last mass-produced floppy disk format, replacing 5.25-inch floppies by the mid-1990s. It was more durable than previous floppy formats since the packaging was rigid plastic with a sliding metal shutter. It was eventually made obsolete by CDs and flash drives.
Detailed explanation-3: -If you were to use the conventional base 2 or 1, 024 KB to figure out the capacity of a floppy diskette size, it would be 1, 474, 560 bytes.
Detailed explanation-4: -8-inch floppy disk The first floppy disk was introduced in 1971. It was an 8-inch flexible magnetic disk in a square case. The first floppy disks were read-only.
Detailed explanation-5: -A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium encased in a rectangular plastic carrier. It is read and written using a floppy disk drive (FDD).