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Single density

Single density

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Disk density.

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Single density (SD or 1D) describes the first generation of floppy disks that use an iron oxide coating. Floppy drives utilize 300-oersted write heads, FM encoding, and a track width of 0.330 mm (0.0130 in) for a density of 48 tracks-per-inch (tpi) and 5,876 bits-per-inch (bpi).