noun
diskette drive; floppy disk drive
Computing term for a drive that reads and writes floppy disks. Now mostly historical.
古いパソコンにはディスケットドライブが内蔵されていた。
Old PCs had a built-in diskette drive.
Variant with interpunct; less common in running text.
More common modern term for a floppy disk drive; ディスケットドライブ is an older or less frequent synonym.
Loanword from English 'diskette drive'.