Difference between floppy disk and compact disk in tabular form
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Answer: floppy disk is a magnetic storage medium with only 1.44 M capacity, while a CD is an optical disc that can store 700M CDs are based on physical dimples in the disk surface, or light-reactive ink layers for RW media. Floppies cannot store much at all A CD will hold more than 450 floppies.
Floppy disks, common in the 70s through late 90s, came in various sizes (8", 5¼", 3½", etc) and had various capacities up to 1.44 MB. These disks were read-writable by default but could be made read-only for commercial program install disks, etc.
Compact Disks (also known as CDs) got popular in the 80s initially as a storage for music, but later became used for storing data for computers with a capacity of about 700 MB. These are generally read-only, but some media were rewritable in that it could be erased and rewritten as opposed to the floppy drive being fully rewritable like a hard drive.