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Disk Drive
In the Amiga context, Disk Drive refers to the 3.5-inch floppy disk drives designated as DF0: (internal) through DF3: (external), which served as the primary removable storage and boot medium. The internal drive connects via a 34-pin header directly to the custom chipset's disk controller, while external units attach through the proprietary DB23 floppy port utilizing a serial communication protocol. These drives store 880 KB in double-density (DD) format or 1.76 MB in high-density (HD) format using MFM encoding, managed by the trackdisk.device driver and AmigaDOS file systems. Though essential for software distribution and data exchange, their relatively slow transfer rates of approximately 250-500 Kbit/s were eventually supplemented by hard drives and accelerators in professional environments.