Removable media

In computer storage, some types of removable media are designed to be read to or written to by removable readers, writers and drives.

Examples include:

Some removable media readers and drives are integrated into computers, others are themselves removable.

Removable media may also refer to some removable storage devices, when they are used to transport or store data. Examples include:

USB flash drives^[2]
External hard disk drives; traditional IDE, EIDE, SCSSI, and SSD, for example
Devices that are common today may include
- Digital cameras
- Smart phones
- Wired or Wireless printers
- other external/dockable peripheral that can be easily removed from a system, which also contain removable media capabilities

References

Basic computer components

Input devices	Keyboard Image scanner Microphone Pointing device Graphics tablet Joystick Light pen Mouse Pointing stick Touchpad Touchscreen Trackball Webcam Softcam

Output devices	Monitor Printer Speakers Plotter

Removable data storage	Optical disc drive CD-RW DVD+RW Disk pack Floppy disk Memory card USB flash drive

Computer case	Central processing unit (CPU) Hard disk / Solid-state drive Motherboard Network interface controller Power supply Random-access memory (RAM) Sound card Video card

Data ports	Ethernet FireWire (IEEE 1394) Parallel port Serial port Universal Serial Bus (USB)