If, by chance, the clip is bent or broken do not use the disk cause it can damage your floppy drive very easily. Hard Drives are located inside the computer and are a permanent disk drive to store software and data on. The hard drive is a stack of several non-removable rigid floppy disks sealed in a case with the air sucked out. Because the disks are rigid, they can be positioned more accurately, allowing them to store more information than floppy disks. Hard drives also operate much faster than floppy drives.
Hard disks are very reliable much more so then floppy disks.
However, if you have important information on your hard drive, it's always a good idea to make a copy onto a floppy disk, called a backup . CD-ROM drives made possible the delivery of huge software programs and reference materials to the user that would otherwise require hundreds of floppy disks. The main measure of CD-ROM drives is the transfer speed, how fast they can deliver information to the system board to be placed in memory. This is expressed as a multiple, 2X, 3X, 4X, 6X and so on. New technology is making advances such that a CD can be written to and read from multiple times, unlike current normal CDs, which are written to once and cannot be changed.