Anatomy of a Floppy Disk Drive

Heads

Let’s now take a look at the heads. The floppy disk drive has two heads, one for each side of the floppy disk. They are stuck together in a set, so they both move together.

Figure 7: Heads set.

Figure 8: A closer look at the heads.

We removed one of the heads, as you can see in Figure 9.

Figure 9: A floppy disk drive head.