Removable media

In computer storage, some types of removable media are designed to be read to or written to by removable readers, writers and drives.

Examples include:

Some removable media readers and drives are integrated into computers, others are themselves removable.

Removable media may also refer to some removable storage devices, when they are used to transport or store data. Examples include:

USB flash drives^[2]
External hard disk drives; traditional IDE, EIDE, SCSSI, and SSD, for example
Devices that are common today may include
- Digital cameras
- Smart phones
- Wired or Wireless printers
- other external/dockable peripheral that can be easily removed from a system, which also contain removable media capabilities

References

Basic computer components
Input devices	Keyboard Image scanner Microphone Pointing device Graphics tablet Joystick Light pen Mouse Optical Pointing stick Touchpad Touchscreen Trackball Webcam Softcam Refreshable braille display
Output devices	Monitor Refreshable braille display Printer Speakers Plotter
Removable data storage	Optical discs CD DVD Blu-ray Disc Disk pack Floppy disk Memory card USB flash drive
Computer case	Central processing unit (CPU) HDD / SSD / SSHD Motherboard Network interface controller Power supply Random-access memory (RAM) Sound card Video card Fax modem Expansion card
Ports	Ethernet FireWire (IEEE 1394) Parallel port Serial port PS/2 port USB Thunderbolt HDMI / DVI / VGA eSATA Audio jack

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