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No, they are permanent storage devices, only RAM is volatile storage device.
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Are hard drives volatile storage devices?
Hard drives are not volatile storage devices, because the information within them is not lost when the drive loses power.
Are hard drives considered non volatile storage devices?
Hard drives are non-volatile, as you don't lose the data stored within if you turn off the power to them.
Is a hard disk drive volital?
I believe that you mean to ask if hard disk drives are considered volatile storage media or not. Volatile memory is memory that is lost when the storage medium is not being supplied with electricity. Hard drives do not need power for storage, only for reading and writing data from and to the platters; this means that hard drives are not volatile storage media.
What is a hard drive used for?
SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it can also be used to connect a wide range of other devices, including scanners and DC drives.
In storage devices what is primary?
hard disk drives
''what are the example of storage device''?
Storage devices are different mediums that can hold varying amounts of information. Some examples of storage devices include CD, DVD, flash drives, floppy disks, and tape drives.
What does a storage device includes?
Examples of storage devices are: internal/external hard drives, floppy drives, CD's, DVD's, thumb drives, etc.
What some examples of solid state storage devices?
Solid state drives, or SSD, are storage devices that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory. Flash drives, compact flash, and MultiMedia cards are examples of solid state storage devices.
What are the Storage device?
There are many different kinds of storage devices based on the purpose of the device. These devices include flash drives.
What are examples of secondary storage devices?
Flash drives, back up storage units
What is a generic term used to collectively describe hard disks CDs and flash drives?
storage, non-volatile storage, persistent storage, mass storage, non-volatile memory. There are lots of ways to say it. I would say "storage media" myself.
Where can you buy san storage?
San's or Storage Area Networks are the devices used when making optical drives, or storage drives, such as usb flash drives. You can purchase these from companies like New Egg.
