Anatomy of a Floppy Disk Drive (FDD)

Posted on Wednesday, August 17 2005 @ 5:29 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Take a look how a floppy disk drive looks like inside and learn about its main components.

Here is a snippet: "We know that floppy disks are being replaced by USB memories and memory cards, but after disassembling a hard disk drive and an optical disk drive, we couldn’t help ourselves from publishing a tutorial showing how a floppy disk drive looks like from inside.." Read on at HardwareSecrets.

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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