Magnetic Storage (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The most common form of magnetic storage in use today is the hard drive, found in nearly every desktop and laptop computer.
- Tape is a linear magnetic storage medium where the bits are arranged linearly on a continuous length of tape.
- In recent years magnetic storage devices such as floppy disks have been largely superseded by non-magnetic media.
- Most early computers used magnetic storage to hold their data as well as their programs.
- This non-volatile memory, called magnetic storage, does not require electricity to retain data, as the magnets stay in their aligned states even after power is removed.