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A hard drive comes with the Computer.

A hard drive is considered permanent as opposed to magnetic tape. The data in tape can be accessed only serially whereas randomly in hard drive.

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Hard disk is an example of magnetic disk

All-electronic storage device that is an alternative to a hard disk are Electronic disk. Eg: Storage in ipods,cameras etc

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