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.
Hard Disk Drive.
It is also known as Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Or Hard Disk Drive.
a hard drive is called "disque dur" in French.
* Hard disk drive * Hard drive * HDD
a hard drive is built into the computer whereas a hard disk is seperate
Hard disk drive.
The hard disk drive platter is used to store magnetic data or information that comes from the hard disk drive, where they are stored. The hard disk drive can contain one or more hard disk platter.
"Festplattenlaufwerk" is a German equivalent of "hard disk drive" of computers.
"Harde schijf" is a Dutch equivalent of "hard disk drive."
Hard Drive Disk (HDD)
A portable hard drive is both of the following:a hard disk drive that is small enough to carry (portable)a hard disk drive that is external to a computer
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PERMANENT HARD DISK DRIVE AND A REMOVABLE HARD DISK DRIVE A permanent drive is in housed in the system while the removable one is externally fixed. Basically they perform the same functions.