Physical File Formats
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Like the rest, this will be split down further.
One of the first steps in preserving data held on physical media is the correct identification of the medium. See Identifying Physical Media for more information on this.
Traditional
Capacitive
- Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED)
- Video High Density (VHD)
Electronical
- Cables and connectors
- Flash memory
- Game cartridges
- Networked devices
- Read Only Memory (ROM chip)
- SIM card
- Smart card
- Transponder
Magnetic
- Disk cartridge
- Drum memory
- Floppy disk
- Hard disk
- Magnetic stripe card
- Magnetic tape (audio cassettes, video cassettes, reel-to-reel, etc.)
- Magneto-optical drive
- Wire recording
Mechanical
Groove media
Point based media
Optical
Disc media
- Magneto-optical drive
- Optical Discs (CD, DVD, BluRay, etc.)
Photography and Projection
- Holography
- Microform
- Photographic film
- Photographic paper
- Photographic plate
- Transparency (projection)
- X-ray
Other
- Bar codes
- Optical mark recognition
- Phonautogram (phonautograph tracing)
- Quantum computer
