The floppy drive> is located in the front of your PC. The purpose of this device is to store information from your PC's volatile RAM to a nonvolatile floppy disk>.

Remember, your PC uses RAM as a chalkboard to do all its work. But when you turn off your PC, everything in RAM disappears. The floppy drive and floppy disk provide a place to permanently store information from RAM.

The floppy disk is also portable. It can be transported and used in any other PC which has a floppy drive.