recording medium
physical storage medium for recording information
Pioneer plaque
plaque attached to the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft in case extraterrestrial life finds them
solid-state drive
semiconductor-based data storage medium, often used for auxiliary memory to store data
Count Key Data
direct access storage device (DASD) data recording format introduced in 1964 by IBM with its IBM System/360 and still being emulated on IBM mainframes
ML-R
optical disc
M-DISC
variety of optical disc designed for long-term archival storage
photographic film
sheet of plastic coated with light-sensitive chemicals
virtual memory
operating system level memory management technique
magnetic tape
medium used to store data in the form of magnetic fields
MiniDisc
magneto-optical storage medium
MODS Disc
high-density optical storage medium
phonograph cylinder
medium for recording and reproducing sound
network-attached storage
computer data storage server
semiconductor memory
data storage device
Photo CD
system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD
auxiliary memory
non-volatile memory that is not directly accessible by the CPU, instead being accessed via input/output channels
MD Data
magneto-optical data storage medium
magnetic disk
carrier type that consists of a disc containing digitally encoded data that are magnetically or optically recorded
LS-R
Computer storage media
flash cartridge
video game cartridge capable of loading arbitrary games
magnetic stripe
a stripe of magnetic material which stores data; usually a permanent part of a magnetic stripe card
hard disk
data storage device
CD-ROM
pre-pressed compact disc containing computer data
piano roll
music storage medium used to operate a player piano, piano player, or reproducing piano
hard disk drive platter
circular disk on which magnetic data is stored in a hard disk drive
fiscal memory device
electronic devices for control of tax revenues
computer memory
physical device used to store information for immediate use in a digital electronic device
video game cartridge
data storage device for use with game console hardware
cache
computing component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster
memory card
electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information
reel-to-reel audio tape
magnetic tape spooled on open reels used for audio recordings with a respective recorder
external hard disk drive
external hard disk with enclosure, designed to operate external to a computer or other computer elements
magnetic storage
storage of data on a magnetized medium
slide
transparent positive photograph
floppy disk
removable disk storage medium
removable media
exchangeable computer storage medium that is read or written using a dedicated storage device which is external or built into the computer
videocassette recorder
electromechanical device
ROM cartridge
removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices
mass storage
computer storage devices
non-volatile memory
computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered
Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak
software storage medium for the Nintendo Entertainment System
Turbo File
Nintendo consoles peripheral
memory cell
elementary data-storing circuit within an electronically addressed computer memory/storage device
genome
entirety of an organism's hereditary information; genome of organism (encoded by the genomic DNA) is the (biological) information of heredity which is passed from one generation of organism to the next; is transcribed to produce various RNAs
audio storage device
physical medium that contains audio content
Web browser bookmark
URI stored for later retrieval in any of various storage formats
machine-readable medium
medium capable of storing data in a format readable by a mechanical device (rather than human readable)
RAM drive
RAM used to emulate secondary storage
Television Electronic Disc
discontinued video recording format released in 1975