A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
Disk storage devices are most commonly used in personal computers as a means to enhance memory. The most common are hard disk drives, optical disk drives, and even zip drives.
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 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.
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A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
Computers use a variety of types of media, including hard disk drives, USB drives, CD-ROMS and DVDs. All are considered removable media except the hard disk drives, which typically are placed permanently inside the computer.
A "diskette" or "floppy disk" is neither as they are removable magnetic storage media. However, if you refer to the drives that read from them or write to them, then those drives are considered hardware.
They are considered Flash storage or elecctronically errasable got this from my thechnology in action textbook in college
Now a days every storage disk drive is portable.. You can have portable hard disk, cd/dvd drives and floppy drives.. All are having a USB interface..
Solid State Disks Hard Disk Drives are also secondary storage devices.