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removable storage media

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 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

Physical0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

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

synonym
USB removable media
plural
removable storage medias
possessive
removable storage media's
pluralpossessive
removable storage medias'