A
designation of
floppy disks that have twice the
storage capacity of a
Single Density floppy (both of which are pretty much
obsolete nowadays). Double density 5¼-inch disks for
PCs can hold 360
kB of data while double density 3½-inch disks can store a whopping 720 kB. More efficient systems like the
Amiga (and some PC utilities like
fdformat) can format DD floppies to 880 kB capacity.