disk storage
Magnetic data retention
Disk storage is a method of saving digital data on rotating magnetic or optical disks—hard drives, floppy disks, CDs, DVDs.
The term distinguishes this technology from other storage types like tape, flash memory, or cloud storage.
Though solid-state drives have largely replaced spinning disks in personal computers, disk storage persists as a general term for any local data storage.
- hard driveComputer's internal storage device
- dataFacts for analysis
- data centerFacility housing networked computers
- filesStored data collections
- file systemData storage organization method
platter · spinning · sectors · bytes · memory · floppy · flash drive · save · archive · partition · format · crash · backup · gigabytes · read · write · magnetic · solid state
- data storagehard drive, hard drives, backup, gigabyte, flash drives
- storage mediablank CD, blank tape, CD, DVD, Blu-ray
disk storageRAM
Temporary data storage hardware
volatile memory · random access memory · main memory · cache memory · working memory
disk storageSSD
Chip-based storage device
flash memory · magnetic tape · punch cards · paper tape · cloud storage
disk, disc, storage, store, disks, discs, stored, stores, storing