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  2. External storage - Wikipedia

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    In computing, external storage refers to non-volatile (secondary) data storage outside a computer 's own internal hardware, and thus can be readily disconnected and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc ), compact flash drives ( USB flash drive and ...

  3. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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    Computer memory and computer data storage types. A hard disk drive ( HDD ), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk [a] is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

  4. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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    SanDisk 1 TB USB-C flash drive (2020 model) next to a 50 cent euro coin. A flash drive (also thumb drive [US], memory stick [UK], and pen drive / pendrive elsewhere) [1] [note 1] is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical USB drive is removable, rewritable, and smaller than an optical disc ...

  5. Disk enclosure - Wikipedia

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    An external hard drive enclosure that uses a 2.5-in drive and a USB connection for power and transfer. Key benefits to using external disk enclosures include: Adding additional storage space and media types to small form factor and laptop computers, as well as sealed embedded systems such as digital video recorders and video game consoles.

  6. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from certain discs, but recent drives can both read and record, also called burners or writers (since ...

  7. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    The drive's total capacity, depending on the number of platters installed, was up to 205,377,600 bytes (205 MB). [12] [13] The first disk drive to use removable media was the IBM 1311 drive. It was introduced in 1962 using the IBM 1316 disk pack to store two million characters.

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