storage medium
data-storage medium

Internal hard drives are the standard storage medium for personal computers.

This case could be an indication that the storage medium is going bad.

So as a storage medium, it is very bad.

Glass is generally safer than plastic as a storage medium, but that's not always the case.

For one thing, far more people are already using the older storage medium.

Applications can view this as a network attached storage medium.

For this reason many telescopes instead record the radio waves onto a storage medium.

Your storage medium has just about nothing to do with texture quality.

And now you have a very efficient storage medium for that, really could change everything.

In this way the information and the storage medium are inseparable.