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General Concepts 2 min read

Memory card

Alternatively referred to as a flash memory card, a Memory card is a type of storage media that is often used to store…

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General Concepts 2 min read

Flash memory

Flash memory may refer to any of the following: 1. Alternatively referred to as flash storage, flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory. It was first invented…

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General Concepts 2 min read

Recordable DVD drives

Alternatively referred to as a DVD writer, recordable DVD drivesare disc drives capable of creating DVD discs. Unfortunately, unlike recordable CD drives,…

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General Concepts 1 min read

BD(Blu-ray Disc)

BD may refer to any of the following: 1. Short for Blu-ray disc, BD or BD-ROM, is an optical disc format developed by thirteen consumer electronics and PC…

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General Concepts 4 min read

CD-ROM

Short for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory, a CD-ROM is an optical disc that contains audio or software data whose memory is read-only. A CD-ROM Drive or optical drive is the…

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General Concepts 4 min read

CD-R

Alternatively referred to as a cd writer, CD-WO (write once), or WORM (write once read many), CD-R is short for Compact Disc-Recordable. It is a writable disc and…

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General Concepts 2 min read

Zip drive

A Zip drive is a small, portable disk drive used primarily for backing up and archiving personal computer files. The…

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General Concepts 2 min read

Magnetic card

A magnetic card is a rectangular object that contains either a magnetic strip on the outside or a magnetic object in the card that…

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General Concepts 6 min read

Hard drive

A hard disk drive (sometimes abbreviated as hard drive, HD, or HDD) is a non-volatile memory hardware device that permanently stores and retrieves data on a computer. A…

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General Concepts 2 min read

FDD

A floppy disk drive, also called FDD or FD for short, is a computer disk drive that enables a user to save data to removable…

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