Floppy disk

A floppy disk is a small, flat storage device that was commonly used to save and transfer digital files before USB drives and cloud storage became popular. It consists of a thin, flexible magnetic disk inside a protective plastic case. Data is written and read through a special device called a floppy drive, which uses magnetic heads to encode information onto the spinning disk. Floppy disks typically hold around 1.44 megabytes of data, making them suitable for documents and small files. While largely obsolete today, they played a vital role in early personal and office computing.