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Latest revision as of 15:42, 3 May 2023
Mass storage is a term for the subset of secondary storage which can store large amounts of data, and almost always has a high-speed channel or some other form of Direct Memory Access to transfer data quickly to the computer to which it is attached.
The two common types are magnetic tape and disks (although the rise of solid state mass storage such as flash memory may make them obsolete).
