Advanced Search. A computer storage device is any type of hardware that stores data. The most common type of storage device, which nearly all computers have, is a hard drive. The computer's primary hard drive stores the operating system, applications, and files and folders for users of the computer.
â n. 1. a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point. 2. Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.3. a notch or degree: to come down a peg.. an occasion, basis, or reason: a peg to hang a grievance on. 5. Also called pin. Music. a pin of wood or metal in the neck of a stringed instrument that may be turned in its socket to adjust a string's tension.
peg. n. 1. (Building) a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together. 2. a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc.. music any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them. See also pin 11. 4. Also called: clothes peg Brit a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry.