STORAGE MEDIUM: also called SECONDARY STORAGE, is the physical material on which a computer keeps data, instructions, and information.
CAPACITY: is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold.
STORAGE DEVICE: is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from storage media.
READING: is the process of transferring these items from a storage medium into memory.
ACCESS TIME: measures the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an ite, on a storage medium.
HARD DISK: is a storage device that contains one or more inflexible, circular platters that use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information.
LONGITUDINAL RECORDING: aligned the magnetic particles horizontally around the surface of the disk.
PERPENDICULAR RECORDING: align the magnetic particles vertically, or perpendicular to the disk's surface, making much greater storage capacities possible.
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