Which term collectively describes hard disks, cds, and flash drives?

You could use any of the following terms: Non-volatile storage, persistent storage, mass storage, non-volatile memory. You could say ‘storage media’ itself. That is very vague.

Auxiliary storage is also a good answer. It is a non-volatile memory (does not lose stored data when the device is powered down) that is not directly accessible by the CPU, because it is not accessed via the input/output channels (it is an external device).

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