floppy diskette drive
nounEtymology From floppy diskette + drive.
1
A computer hardware device to read and write data from removable soft, so-called floppy, diskettes.
- Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.
- Synonyms
- floppy disk drive, floppy disc drive, diskette drive, floppy drive, FDD, FD
- Related terms
- hard drive