Question

Which device can store large amounts of data?

Answer 1

Hard disk is an hardware component which is used to store large amounts of data. The primary characteristics of hard drive are its capacity and performance. it is an electro mechanical data storage device.

• There are two general types of hard drives: hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD)
• In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion.
• There are two broad classes of mass storage: local data in devices such as smartphones or computers and enterprise servers and data centers for the cloud.