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mass storage
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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, and a variety of
computer drives
such as
hard disk drives
,
magnetic tape
drives,
magneto-optical disc
drives,
optical disc
drives, and
solid-state drives
. It also includes experimental forms like
holographic memory
and historic forms like
drum memory
,
floppy disk
drives and
punched tape
. Mass storage includes devices with
removable
and non-removable media. It does not include
random access memory
(RAM), which is
volatile
in that it loses its contents after power loss.
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