Floppy disks (or diskettes) are magnetic disk data storage formats, usually composed of a thin, flexible disk sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier. In many cases the carrier is rigid, and the word floppy refers to the disc inside. Capacities can range from just a few KB (such as the Olivetti minidisc, with an initial capacity of 3KB) to 750KB for the largest capacity Zip disk.
The sizes below relate to the form factor of the disk drive, and the disk itself may not be the exactly the size listed.
For a version of this page that can fit on a floppy disk, visit the The Floppy Disk Museum on a Floppy page.
Optical, magnetic-optical, hard disks and others can be found the on the main Disks / Discs for Data page.
Contents
8-inch
| 8-inch floppy disk (1971 – early 1980s) |  |
| Iomega Bernoulli disk 8-inch (1982 – 1987) |  |
5.25-inch
| 5.25-inch floppy disk (1976 – early 1990s) |  |
| 5.25-inch ‘flippy’ disk (1976 – mid 1980s) |  |
| Apple FileWare / Twiggy disk (1983 – 1984) |  |
| Iomega Bernoulli disk 5.25-inch (1987 – 1994) |  |
| Nintendo 64DD (Dynamic Drive) (1999 – 2000) |  |
3.5-inch
| 3.5-inch microfloppy disk (Double Density) (1982 – 1990s) |  |
| 3.5-inch microfloppy disk (High Density) (1987 – late 2000s) |  |
| 3.5-inch microfloppy (Extended Density) (1991 – mid 1990s) |  |
| Floptical (1991 – 1993) |  |
| Iomega Zip (1995 – 2004) |  |
| SuperDisk (1997 – early 2000s) |  |
| Caleb UHD144 / it drive (1998 – 2002) |  |
| HiFD (High capacity Floppy Disk) (1998 – early 2000s) |  |
| Iomega Zip U250 (2001 – 2003) |  |
| Iomega Zip 250 (2001 – 2006) |  |
| Iomega Zip 750 (2002 – 2006) |  |
3.25-inch
| 3.25-inch floppy disk (1983 – mid 1980s) |  |
3-inches and smaller
| Olivetti minidisc (1977 – early 1980s) |  |
| Olympia Micro-Disk (1977 – late 1980s) |  |
| MCD cassette (early 1980s) |  |
| 3-inch Compact Floppy disk (1982 – early 1990s) |  |
| Brother Micro Disc (mid 1980s) |  |
| 2.6-inch micro-disk (mid 1980s) |  |
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Mitsumi Quick Disk (1985 – late 1980s) |
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| Video Floppy (1986 – 1990s) |  |
| 2.8-inch DataDisk (1986 – early 1990s) |  |
| Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1986 – early 1990s) |  |
| Sharp Pocket Disk (1986 – early 1990s) |  |
| Sony PD-1 (1987 – early 1990s) |  |
| LT-1 (1989 – early 1990s) |  |
| Iomega Clik! / PocketZip (1999 – early 2000s) |  |