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    Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetisation in a magnetizable...
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  • Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording. Tape was an important medium for primary...
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    Williams tubes, or rotating magnetic drums as primary storage. By 1954, those unreliable methods were mostly replaced by magnetic-core memory. Core memory...
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    stated: "Magnetic-Core Storage has two big advantages: (1) greater reliability with a consequent reduction in maintenance time devoted to storage; (2) shorter...
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  • Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems store energy in the magnetic field created by the flow of direct current in a superconducting coil...
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    Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs...
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    Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany...
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  • computer data storage devices (e.g. disk storage, hard disk drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape), and early computer storage methods such...
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    reliability but slow writing. Magnetic tape formats like LTO have far surpassed MO media for high capacity enterprise-grade backup storage. In 2016 a new phenomenon...
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    data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material...
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  • disconnected and accessed elsewhere. Such storage devices may refer to removable media (e.g. punched paper, magnetic tape, floppy disk and optical disc), compact...
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    Drum memory (redirect from Magnetic drum)
    Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria. Drums were widely used in the 1950s and into the 1960s...
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  • commonly-used competing technology of electromechanical magnetic storage which uses moving media coated with magnetic material. Generally, SSS is much faster but...
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    various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to the disk's surface layer. A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable...
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  • for access control or electronic payment. Magnetic storage was known from World War II and computer data storage in the 1950s. In 1969 an IBM engineer had...
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  • Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase storage density and overall...
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  • Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) (pronounced "hammer") is a magnetic storage technology for greatly increasing the amount of data that can be stored...
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  • in MRAM is not stored as electric charge or current flows, but by magnetic storage elements. The elements are formed from two ferromagnetic plates, each...
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  • Degaussing (category Magnetic data storage)
    magnetic fields in cathode ray tube monitors and to destroy data held on magnetic storage. The term was first used by then-Commander Charles F. Goodeve, Royal...
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    (MOS) transistors as memory cell storage elements in semiconductor memory, a function previously served by magnetic cores in computer memory. In 1967...
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    Floppy disk (category Computer storage media)
    a floppy or a diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic...
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    with the terms RAM, main memory or primary storage. Archaic synonyms for main memory include core (for magnetic core memory) and store. Main memory operates...
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  • longitudinal magnetic recording (LMR) at nanoscale dimensions was made in 1998 at IBM Almaden Research Center in collaboration with researchers of Data Storage Systems...
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    such as electromagnets, electric motors, generators, transformers, magnetic storage (including tape recorders and hard disks), and nondestructive testing...
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  • described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, and a variety of computer drives such as hard disk drives, magnetic tape drives, magneto-optical...
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    industry conference. This used a laser to warm the storage media so that it became susceptible to magnetic fields and an electromagnet, similar to the one...
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  • Remanence (redirect from Magnetic remanence)
    provides the magnetic memory in magnetic storage devices, and is used as a source of information on the past Earth's magnetic field in paleomagnetism. The...
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  • has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usually being faster than forms of mass storage such as a hard disk drive, volatility can...
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  • Magnetic memory may refer to: Magnetic storage, the storage of data on a magnetized medium Magnetic-core memory, an early form of random-access memory...
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  • Memory Stick Magnetic storage media Floppy and Zip disks (now obsolete) Disk packs (now obsolete) Magnetic tapes (now obsolete) Paper data storage, e.g. punched...
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