Why does my monitor have a HDD built inside its screen?

Ferrariassassin

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I own a 24 inch LD 1080p IPS monitor and after getting it all set up i noticed i had a new storage devive on my ps saying LG Storage 0 bytes out of 2GB so i thought my PC was screwing up thinking my monitor was a HDD so i downloaded a small game to it and it really did download it to my dang monitor as if it was a HDD...........This is pretty crazy, does my monitor have like a small thumb drive or something in it?
 
Solution
My guess is has the space to allow you to do firmware upgrades. You copy the special firmware file to that device and power cycle the TV.