floppy drive

floppy drive

English

A floppy drive for 3½-inch diskettes

Noun

floppy drive (plural floppy drives)

1. A computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3.5", 5.25" or 8" diskettes.

Synonyms

• floppy disk drive, floppy disc drive
• floppy diskette drive
• diskette drive
• FDD (abbreviation)
• FD (abbreviation)

Related terms

• tape drive
• cassette drive

Translations

device for reading floppy disks

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 軟盤驅動器, 软盘驱动器 (ruǎnpán qūdòngqì) Dutch: diskettestation n Finnish: levykeasema (fi), diskettiasema, korppuasema French: lecteur de disquette (fr) m German: Diskettenlaufwerk (de) n Hungarian: floppymeghajtó, flopimeghajtó, hajlékonylemezes meghajtó, floppy (hu) Indonesian: kandar disket

Japanese: フロッピーディスクドライブ (furoppīdhisukudoraibu) Korean: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: дискетна единица f (dísketna edínica) Polish: stacja dyskietek f Portuguese: leitor/drive de disquetes/disquete m Russian: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: disketna jedinica f, disketni pogon m Spanish: disquetera (es) f, unidad de disquete f Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can