4th March 2003, 3:55 PM
The definition of floppy and hard drive is as follows:
A floppy drive's data is stored on a magnetic circle that is very loose and "floppy" inside some sort of protective casing (which may or may not be floppy).
A hard drive's data is stored on a series of metal disks that are in fact very HARD and won't be flopping without a large amount of heat.
Whether or not the drive is removable has nothing to do with if it's a floppy or hard drive. I've never broken apart large ZIP disks, but if they are stored on solid metal disks as opposed to a disk made out of the stuff movie tape is made of, that could very well be called a hard drive without being inaccurate. I'm pretty much certain the 64DD's disks were hard, otherwise they didn't need to be nearly as thick.
Besides that, the PS2 Hard Drive certainly is removable, thus what is that? I also think the XBox's hard drive should have been removable. However my point here is that removability is not the definer.
A floppy drive's data is stored on a magnetic circle that is very loose and "floppy" inside some sort of protective casing (which may or may not be floppy).
A hard drive's data is stored on a series of metal disks that are in fact very HARD and won't be flopping without a large amount of heat.
Whether or not the drive is removable has nothing to do with if it's a floppy or hard drive. I've never broken apart large ZIP disks, but if they are stored on solid metal disks as opposed to a disk made out of the stuff movie tape is made of, that could very well be called a hard drive without being inaccurate. I'm pretty much certain the 64DD's disks were hard, otherwise they didn't need to be nearly as thick.
Besides that, the PS2 Hard Drive certainly is removable, thus what is that? I also think the XBox's hard drive should have been removable. However my point here is that removability is not the definer.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)