MASSSTORAGE

Mass storage

In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion. Devices and/or systems that have been described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, hard disk drives, magnetic tape drives, optical disc drives, magneto-optical disc drives, drum memory, floppy disk drives, punched tape and holographic memory . Mass storage includes devices with removable and non-removable media. It does not include random access memory, which is volatile in that it loses its contents after power loss.

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mass storage

Noun

  1. Any form of persistent data storage technology with high capacity relative to that of the high-speed non-persistent memory of computers of its time.
    The mass storage of the network consisted of 40 megabytes of Bernoulli boxes.


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