External storage

This article is about external storage devices. For external storage in the context of data structures, see External and internal storage.

In computing, external storage refers to non-volatile (secondary) data storage outside a computer's own internal hardware, and thus can be readily disconnected and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact flash drives (USB flash drive and memory card), portable storage devices (external solid-state drive and enclosured hard disk drive), or network-attached storage.[1][2] Web-based cloud storage is the latest technology for external storage.[3][4]

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  3. ^ Guardiola-Múzquiz, Gorka; Soriano-Salvador, Enrique (2022-12-06). "SealFSv2: combining storage-based and ratcheting for tamper-evident logging". International Journal of Information Security. 22 (2): 447–466. doi:10.1007/s10207-022-00643-1. hdl:10115/24401. ISSN 1615-5270. S2CID 254387439.
  4. ^ Lin, Yuheng; Wang, Zhiqiang; Zhao, Jinyang; Chen, Ying; Chi, Yaping (2022). "FSTOR: A Distributed Storage System that Supports Chinese Software and Hardware". In Qian, Zhihong; Jabbar, M.A.; Li, Xiaolong (eds.). Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Singapore: Springer Nature. pp. 342–350. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2456-9_36. ISBN 978-981-19-2456-9.