It is a storage device, usually the main storage on a computer where programming and data are saved.
A traditional device can read and write information to the disk, and can be re-used (over-written with new information)
They both... used as storage
Hard drives are not volatile storage devices, because the information within them is not lost when the drive loses power.
Examples of storage devices are: internal/external hard drives, floppy drives, CD's, DVD's, thumb drives, etc.
There are many places on the high street to buy hard drives for data storage like PC World. You can also find hard drives for sale on both Amazon and eBay.
There are many types of storage media, two of them are USBs, or thumb drives, and external hard drives.
There are many different options for data storage. You can use zip drive, external hard drives, or even online storage for your data needs.
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.
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1.5 TB of storage
Hard disk drive inside the PC, CD or DVD drives/disks, USB (thumb drive, jump drive), and floppy disk drive/disk storage. Other storage can be external Hard disk drives, tape drives, RAID drives and the newer Blu-Ray.
No, they are permanent storage devices, only RAM is volatile storage device.