Data storage device

Quality:

Recording medium - physical storage medium for recording information. Article “Data storage device” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Data storage device”, its content was written by 26 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9154^th place) and edited by 1179 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16027 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1174 in September 2014
• Global: #3493 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1343 in January 2013
• Global: #2882 in September 2014

There are 34 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos		61.4216
2	Catalan (ca) Dispositiu d'emmagatzematge de dades		53.1738
3	Simple English (simple) Data storage device		49.2758
4	Greek (el) Μέσο αποθήκευσης δεδομένων		43.9908
5	Turkish (tr) Veri kayıt ortamı		43.0078
6	German (de) Datenträger		39.1623
7	Korean (ko) 기록매체		37.7008
8	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		33.1958
9	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		29.9985
10	Basque (eu) Datuak biltzeko gailu		29.358

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos		11 085 243
2	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		960 895
3	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		882 949
4	French (fr) Stockage d'information		874 443
5	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		622 416
6	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		591 455
7	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		348 432
8	Ukrainian (uk) Носій даних		239 590
9	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		236 533
10	Chinese (zh) 儲存裝置		172 467

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos		1 675
2	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		1 449
3	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		473
4	French (fr) Stockage d'information		467
5	Chinese (zh) 儲存裝置		324
6	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		317
7	German (de) Datenträger		291
8	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		280
9	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		253
10	Czech (cs) Datové médium		138

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos		235
2	French (fr) Stockage d'information		119
3	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		76
4	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		71
5	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		69
6	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		55
7	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		51
8	Dutch (nl) Gegevensdrager		50
9	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		50
10	Hebrew (he) אמצעי לאחסון נתונים		46

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Dispositiu d'emmagatzematge de dades		1
2	Basque (eu) Datuak biltzeko gailu		1
3	French (fr) Stockage d'information		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Yaddasaxlama qurğusu		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Носител за съхранение на данни		0
6	Czech (cs) Datové médium		0
7	Danish (da) Lagringsmedie		0
8	German (de) Datenträger		0
9	Greek (el) Μέσο αποθήκευσης δεδομένων		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Datumportilo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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