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The hard drive of a computer is a storage device: it contains the operating system and any data or program files used by the computer.

Although a hard drive both accepts input and provides output, it is not accessed directly by the user in either of these functions.

A flash drive, CD, DVD, or external drive are other storage devices or media. In early computers, drives wrote to removable disks as CD burners and DVD burners do today.

These types of media-writing hardware are considered output devices.

Some people that there are three types of devices, not two: "input devices", "output devices", and "storage devices." With that set of definitions, a hard drive would be neither an input device nor an output device, but would sit firmly in the third category, as a storage device

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