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Typically it is referred to as Primary Storage. However, the method of technology to do this varies.
Many media currently called 'Secondary' was not always so, and may not always be so in the future. For example, Floppy Drives and CDs/DVDs. There exist systems which lack a Hard Drive, and use these exclusively.
In some terminologies, Primary Storage may refer to as RAM (Random Access Memory).
It depends greatly, and there are no official requirement.
Here's a breakdown of memory types:
Volatile (Erased when power lose): Buffers, RAM (DRAM of all kinds)
Non-Volatile: Hard Drives, Solid State Drives, SD cards, USB Memory Sticks, Compact Flash Cards, Tape Drives, Floppy Drives, Drum Drives, Magneto Optical Disks, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, HD-DVDs, HVDs, Laserdiscs, Punch Cards, Tape Reels, IBM Racetrack Memory,
Semi-Volatile: RAMDrives, Jump Drives, Capacitor Sheets, Cache (SRAM), Racetrack Memory, Bubble Memory, Mercuric Resonance Memory, Vacuum Tubes, Selectron Tubes, Firmware, EEPROM, CMOS
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portable storage medium
Is diskette a part of a computer?
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CDRW and DVDRW
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No. It transfers it from memory to a storage device, so it does the opposite.
What is a storage tape?
A storage tape is a high quality medium (often 8mm wide now) in a cartridge used to store backups of computer system files.
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Defrag, chkdsk, are the two big ones.
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RAM
How secondary storage devices are classified?
Secondary storage is?æthe devices for permanent storage and it is not affected if the computer is turned on or not. Secondary storage is?æmostly known as auxiliary storage or external hardware.
What is the purpose of auxiliary storage device in the computer and the function?
Auxiliary storage devices are used to provide additional, portable storage, as opposed to hard drives which are fixed inside the computer and serve as primary storage devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Auxiliary storage is a term used in mainframe computing and refers to the medium on which paging datasets reside.
