Mikroračunalniki/osebni računalniki (PC) z vgrajenimi diski (ali drugi nosilci s trajnim pomnjenjem), ki delujejo bodisi samostojno ali so mrežno konfigurirani in prenosne računalniške naprave (npr. prenosni PC in elektronske "beležnice") z vgrajenimi trdimi diski, se upoštevajo kot nosilci shranjenih podatkov v istem pomenu kakor računalniške diskete ali drugi izmenljivi računalniški nosilci.
Microcomputers/Personal Computers (PCs) with fixed disks (or other non-volatile storage media), operating either in stand-alone mode or as networked configurations, and portable computing devices (for example, portable PCs and electronic "notebooks") with fixed hard disks, shall be considered as information storage media in the same sense as floppy diskettes or other removable computer storage media.