Wiktionary
n. (context computing English) A piece of hardware whose main function is to store data.
WordNet
n. a device that preserves information for retrieval [syn: memory device]
Wikipedia
Storage device may refer to:
- Box, or any of a variety of containers or receptacles
- Data storage device, a device for recording information, which could range from handwriting to video or acoustic recording, or to electromagnetic energy modulating magnetic tape and optical discs
- Object storage device, computer storage device
- Portable storage device, small hard drive or pen drive
Usage examples of "storage device".
The first crystal sample to be analyzed properly, a blue porphyry type, proved, due to peculiarities of its composition, a marvelous optical storage device, allowing computers virtually instantaneous access to improbably large volumes of data stored in matrixes of exceptionally small dimensions.
As big as a small room, and weighing more than four tons, this high-speed storage device can hold 6,000 cartridges containing a total of 300 terabytes of informationthe equivalent of more than 150 billion pages of text.
Or it might be a storage device that was simply holding onto those it had inhaled for an indeterminate period of time.
Thorsen's personality matrix would continue, jumping from one storage device to another, as blind in its desires as were the unknowing machines that had formed it.
Or a new and unknown kind of power-storage device, a bomb that will go off at any time?
The long string of a DNA molecule may then be thought of as a general purpose storage device.
Library One still looked as it always had, minus a few thousand book-crystals and a big cylindrical low-temperature storage device in which Valseir had kept paper and plastic books.
We have seen how staggeringly impressive it is as an accurate data storage device.