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2. Portable storage device - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. External storage - Wikipedia

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   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 memory card), portable storage devices (external solid-state drive and enclosured hard disk drive), or network-attached storage.

4. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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   A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) [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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   Paper data storage, e.g. punched cards, punched tapes (now obsolete) Examples of removable media that are standalone plug-and-play devices that carry their own reader hardwares include: USB flash drives [5] Portable storage devices. Dedicated external solid-state drives (SSD) Enclosured mass storage drives, i.e. modified hard disk drives (HDD ...

6. Flash memory - Wikipedia

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   In portable devices, it is preferred to use flash memory because of its mechanical shock resistance since mechanical drives are more prone to mechanical damage. [4] Because erase cycles are slow, the large block sizes used in flash memory erasing give it a significant speed advantage over non-flash EEPROM when writing large amounts of data.

7. Memory card - Wikipedia

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   A memory card is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using flash memory. These are commonly used in digital portable electronic devices , such as digital cameras as well as in many early games consoles such as the Nintendo Wii .