The Commodore 1541 has a internal power supply, one diskette station with one read / write head and a motherboard. On the motherboard you will find RAM and ROM memory, twice a MOS 6522 VIA and a MOS 6502 processor. The Commodore 1541 disk drive is a smart device, reading and writing works independent of the connected computer.
The 1541 disk-drive is one of the most well known disk-drives for the Commodore computers.