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It is spelled 'hard drive'.

Considering the nature of a hard drive, you might say "both".

All hard drives provide input and output.

Input is performed when your operating system reads a sector looking for data or a program.

Output is performed when your operating system writes to the hard drive to swap or store data.

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technically it is not a device, hawdware is but they both will be input

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Neither.

It is a storage device.

The connections have nothing to do with it.

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its a storage .

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