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 ¹⁄₂″, 5 ¹⁄₄″ 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 (nl) n
• Faroese: disklastøð f
• Finnish: levykeasema (fi), diskettiasema, korppuasema, lerppuasema
• 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 (furoppī disuku doraibu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: дискетна единица f (disketna edinica)
• Polish: stacja dyskietek f
• Portuguese: leitor/drive de disquetes/disquete m
• Romanian: unitate de dischetă f
• Russian: дисково́д (ru) m (diskovód)
• Serbo-Croatian: disketna jedinica f, disketni pogon m
• Spanish: disquetera (es) f, unidad de disquete f
• Swedish: diskettstation (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can