magnetic storage
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Definition
Noun: A type of data storage technology that uses different patterns of magnetization on a magnetizable material to store and retrieve digital information (bits or bytes). This is a non-volatile storage method, meaning the data remains even when the power is turned off.
Usage
"Magnetic storage" refers to the technology or medium itself. It is commonly used to describe a category of computer storage devices. - The company's servers still rely heavily on magnetic storage for archival data. - Floppy disks were an early form of magnetic storage.
Examples
Advanced Usage
- "magnetic storage media": The physical material (e.g., platters, tape) that holds the magnetized data.
- Backup tapes are a form of magnetic storage media.
- "magnetic storage device": The functional hardware unit that reads from and writes to the storage media.
- An external hard drive is a portable magnetic storage device.
Variants and Related Words
- Magnetic disk (n): A storage medium, like a hard disk platter or floppy disk, that uses magnetic patterns on a flat, circular surface.
- Magnetic tape (n): A sequential access storage medium using a thin magnetizable coating on a long strip of plastic film.
- Magnetization (n): The process of making a material magnetic; the state of being magnetic. This is the fundamental principle behind the technology.
Synonyms
- Non-volatile magnetic memory: A more technical synonym emphasizing the data persistence.
- Magnetic recording: A term focusing on the process of writing data onto the medium.
Related Phrases
- Magnetic storage technology: The broader field encompassing the development and principles of this storage method.
- Advances in magnetic storage technology have dramatically increased data density.
Noun
- any storage medium in which different patterns of magnetization are used to represent stored bits or bytes of information
- the hard disk in you computer is magnetic storage