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title: "What is a Permanent storage in PC ?"  
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# What is a Permanent storage in PC ?

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## Answers

### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL

**A storage device in [Computer System](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/49666/when-was-macintosh-computer-invented) that stores, and extract data files and objects regardless of power off of the [computer](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39653/what-is-the-name-of-india-s-new-fastest-supercomputer) is known as “Hard Drive” or [“Hard Disk”](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/46845/can-i-carry-a-hard-disk-in-my-cabin-baggagehttps://answers.mindstick.com/qa/46845/can-i-carry-a-hard-disk-in-my-cabin-baggage).** Hard Drive usually has a large storage capacity and stores the data permanently until it is deleted manually. Once a [data or file](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51181/how-to-create-a-log-error-file-in-android-studio-and-also-perform-read-write-operation-in-a-file) is saved in Hard Disk then power off of computer system also doesn’t remove the file until is done by self. **Hard Drives are Non-Volatile in nature**. There two types of Permanent Storage Device i.e. Internal Storage Device (Hard Disk) and External Storage Device.

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## External Storage Device is of various types:

**a)** Blue-Ray Disk, **b)** Flash Memory (USB Flash Drives, Pen Drive), **c)** [CD (Writable (R), Re-Writable (RW), ROM) i.e. Compact Disk](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36142/what-are-some-gadgets-to-use-in-empty-cd-rom-slot-instead-of-cd-rom), **d)** Floppy Diskette (Now, not in use), **e)** Memory Card, **f)** [DVD](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31205/when-was-the-dvd-introduced)-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW Disk, **g)** SSD Card, **h)** Magnetic Tapes (Now, not in use) Storage Devices are one of the most important components of a Computer System. A Storage Device is also named as Storage Media or Storage Medium. The concept of Virtual Memory has been used by most of the Computer [Operating Systems](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30731/what-are-the-types-of-operating-system-or-o-s). **It allows utilization of more primary memory capacity that the memory is physically available in the system.** \

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