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2. External storage - Wikipedia

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   External storage. 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 ...

3. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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   In development. Historical. v. t. e. 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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   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, and usually weighs less than 30 g (1 oz).

5. Removable media - Wikipedia

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   USB flash drives [5] Portable storage devices. Dedicated external solid-state drives (SSD) Enclosured mass storage drives, i.e. modified hard disk drives (HDD)/internal SSDs; Peripheral devices that have integrated data storage capability Digital cameras; Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and handheld game consoles; Portable media players

6. Torx - Wikipedia

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   A Torx T8 screw head on a hard disk drive. Torx (pronounced / tɔːrks /) is a trademark for a type of screw drive characterized by a 6-point star-shaped pattern, developed in 1967 [1] by Camcar Textron. [a] A popular generic name for the drive is star, as in star screwdriver or star bits. The official generic name, standardized by the ...

7. Portable storage device - Wikipedia

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   Portable storage device. A portable storage device (PSD) is a compact plug-and-play mass storage device designed to hold a large volume of digital data of any kind. [1] This is slightly different from a portable media player, which is designed to only store music and video files that its internal reader softwares can play. Most modern PSDs are ...