A disk drive is a physical drive in a computer capable of holding and retrieving information. Below is a list of all the different types of computer disk drives.

Examples of computer disk drives

  • Bernoulli drive
  • Floppy disk drive
  • Hard drive
  • LS120 drive aka SuperDisk
  • Zip drive

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A “disk” drive refers to a magnetic disk inside of the drive or diskette. If the drive uses different technology, such as CD-ROM that uses a laser, it’s not called a “disk drive.” In this example, a CD-ROM is called a disc drive.

See our drive definition for a full list of all computer drives.

  • How to see all drives available on the computer.
  • Hard drive help and support.
  • Floppy drive help and support.