Data storage device

Quality:

Recording medium - physical storage medium for recording information. Article “Data storage device” in Simple English Wikipedia has 52 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 (8643^rd place) and edited by 1161 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 31 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15080 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1175 in September 2014
• Global: #3495 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1344 in January 2013
• Global: #2773 in September 2014

There are 33 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, 2025 (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		61.9949
2	Catalan (ca) Dispositiu d'emmagatzematge de dades		53.2123
3	Simple English (simple) Data storage device		52.0322
4	Greek (el) Μέσο αποθήκευσης δεδομένων		43.9162
5	Turkish (tr) Veri kayıt ortamı		42.9056
6	German (de) Datenträger		40.4266
7	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		31.868
8	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		29.9943
9	Basque (eu) Datuak biltzeko gailu		29.1939
10	Lithuanian (lt) Informacijos laikmena		23.3787

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		11 039 536
2	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		955 993
3	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		864 348
4	French (fr) Stockage d'information		861 953
5	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		615 050
6	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		534 110
7	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		344 585
8	Ukrainian (uk) Носій даних		233 469
9	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		231 324
10	Chinese (zh) 儲存裝置		171 987

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		3 509
2	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		1 658
3	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		899
4	French (fr) Stockage d'information		744
5	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		400
6	Chinese (zh) 儲存裝置		384
7	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		349
8	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		347
9	German (de) Datenträger		316
10	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		236

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		234
2	French (fr) Stockage d'information		117
3	Polish (pl) Nośnik danych		76
4	Hungarian (hu) Háttértár		70
5	Japanese (ja) 記録媒体		65
6	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		55
7	Italian (it) Supporto di memoria		50
8	Dutch (nl) Gegevensdrager		50
9	Russian (ru) Запоминающее устройство		49
10	Hebrew (he) אמצעי לאחסון נתונים		45

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	Spanish (es) Dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos		2
2	Esperanto (eo) Datumportilo		1
3	Portuguese (pt) Dispositivo de armazenamento de dados		1
4	Azerbaijani (az) Yaddasaxlama qurğusu		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Носител за съхранение на данни		0
6	Catalan (ca) Dispositiu d'emmagatzematge de dades		0
7	Czech (cs) Datové médium		0
8	Danish (da) Lagringsmedie		0
9	German (de) Datenträger		0
10	Greek (el) Μέσο αποθήκευσης δεδομένων		0

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

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