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Removable media

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Portable electronic storage media such as magnetic, optical, and solid-state devices, which can be inserted into and removed from a computing device, and that is used to store text, video, audio, and image information. Such devices have no independent processing capabilities. Examples include hard disks, floppy disks, zip drives, compact disks (CDs), thumb drives, pen drives, and similar USB storage devices.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Physical95%rule-basedr:entity.physical.facility.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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