mass storage
Large capacity drives
Mass storage refers to devices or systems that hold large amounts of data persistently—hard drives, solid-state drives, tape libraries, and cloud storage.
The term distinguishes high-capacity, non-volatile storage from the smaller, temporary memory that computers use during active processing: The server's mass storage holds terabytes of archived video.
Computer's internal storage device
- SSDChip-based storage device
- HDDMagnetic platter storage device
- RAIDDisk virtualization technology
- NASNetwork-linked storage device
SAN · flash drive · USB drive · external drive · tape drive · optical drive · memory card · NVMe
Trillion-byte measure
- petabyteQuadrillion bytes measured
- exabyteQuintillion bytes measurement
- zettabyteSextillion-byte storage unit
- yottabyteLargest standard storage measure
gigabyte · high-density · data lake · data warehouse · big data · volume · partition · allocation
Facility housing networked computers
- server farmFacility housing networked computers
- colocationShared hosting facility
- rackFrame for holding items
- virtualizationCreating simulated computing environments
redundancy · scalability · load balancing · cooling · uptime · bandwidth · networking · firewall
Extracting insights from datasets
- file systemData storage organization method
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- snapshotInformal photograph taken quickly
- replicationAct of duplicating precisely
Stored duplicate for recovery
- archiveStored historical records
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- repositoryPlace for storing things
- retentionContinued holding or possession
vault · cataloging · indexing · retrieval · migration
hard drive
Computer's internal storage device
NAS · SAN · flash drive · USB drive · external drive · tape drive · optical drive · memory card · NVMe · SATA
terabyte
Trillion-byte measure
- petabyteQuadrillion bytes measured
- exabyteQuintillion bytes measurement
- zettabyteSextillion-byte storage unit
yottabyte · gigabyte · high-density · data lake · data warehouse · big data · volume · partition · allocation · quota
data center
Facility housing networked computers
- server farmFacility housing networked computers
- colocationShared hosting facility
- rackFrame for holding items
virtualization · redundancy · scalability · load balancing · cooling · uptime · bandwidth · networking · firewall · hosting
data mining
Extracting insights from datasets
- file systemData storage organization method
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- snapshotInformal photograph taken quickly
backup
Stored duplicate for recovery
- archiveStored historical records
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- repositoryPlace for storing things
retention · vault · cataloging · indexing · retrieval · migration
mass storageRAM
Temporary data storage hardware
volatile memory · main memory · random access memory · working memory · cache
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