What Is Extra-high Density (ED)?
What's in a name? If you're talking about the Extra-high Density (ED), quite a lot. In IT, this term refers to a specific kind of floppy disk with a particular storage capacity. The problem is that this kind of disk has had several different storage capacity designations over the years. The first was 1.44 MB (megabytes), followed by 2.88 MB and 5.25 MB; these designations have been used for decades and are still in use today. However, in recent years we've also seen new versions of these floppies come out with different designations, namely 1 GB and 2 GB, which are larger than their predecessors but still fit into the same category as those older models (and technically fall under the same name). There's such confusion around this topic because some people may still be using older versions of these floppies while others have transitioned over to newer ones (which means they won't recognize each other's disks). This makes it difficult for anyone who needs to share files between clients using different types of storage media—they need to know precisely what kind of machine will accept their files before sending them over! If you've been around for a while, you may remember that floppy disks were popular back in the day. They were used to store things like documents and spreadsheets, and they came in all sorts of colors. Some people even had collections of different colors that they'd use for other purposes. The disks were small and portable, but they didn't have much storage capacity. For example, if you wanted to store something on a floppy disk with 2.88 MB of storage capacity (remember those?), it would take up the entire thing! You couldn't fit anything else on there if you tried. And we tried—we had so many ideas for what we could do with the floppies that we ran out of space on them almost immediately!
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