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disc (A round, flat piece of nonmagnetic, shiny metal encased in a plastic coating, designed to be read from and written to by optical (laser) technology); disk (A device used to store information. There are two types of disks. Hard disks are permanent and installed into your computer. Floppy disks are portable and can be inserted into and removed from a floppy disk drive) |
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digital video disk (A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly 650 MB) and the use of laser optics rather than magnetic means for reading data. Optical disk storage commonly used for audio, video, and computer data. DVDs range in capacity from 4.7 GB to 17 GB, and can store significantly more than a CD-ROM) |
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USB drive (A small device used to store information. USB flash drives plug into computer USB ports so you can copy information to or from them, making it easy to share and transport information) |
