Floppy Disks

Floppy Disks were introduced in the year 1971,these disk were 8 inch in diameter having a approx capacity of 1 mb. It contain the plastic disc with magnetic coating enclosed in cardboard case.The disks had read and write heads through which the data was accessible. Later in 1976,5.25" disks were introduced which were Because of such small size of storage, one had to maintain so many floppies to store a data which was in large size.Also these disks were very sensitive,one had to take lot of care to maintain it because they used to get corrupted very fast due to environmental factors such as dust, rise in temperature etc. Hence people started diverting towards the other storage medias such as CD or hardisks.

















Advantages:
a) Floppies were portable in nature,so one could easily transfer the data from on computer to the other.
b) Data was accessible at a very fast rate.
c) They were not expensive.

Disadvantages :
a) Floppy disks have less storage capacity and the transfer rate as compared to its counterparts suchs as CDs and pendrives etc.
b) It tends to get corrupted very fast due to physical conditions such as moisture,dirt etc.