magnetic storage

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magnetic
adjective
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/mæɡˈnet.ɪk/us
/mæɡˈnet̬.ɪk/
(of a metal object or material) able to attract objects or materials containing iron ...
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storage
noun[U]
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/ˈstɔː.rɪdʒ/us
/ˈstɔːr.ɪdʒ/
the putting and keeping of things in a special place for use in ...
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Chapter 5 is concerned with disk-based storage, and covers various optical andmagneticstoragemedia and formats.
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The machine's registers were stored in 128 words of thin-film memory, a faster form ofmagneticstorage.
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Photographic film or themagneticstoragemedium inside floppy disks can be used as inexpensive visible-light filters.
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In fact, the floppy drive is one example of amagneticstoragedevice that became extremely popular in the 1970s through the 1990s.
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Magneticstoragedevices provided the first means of storing electronic data.
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Inmagneticstorage, the magnetic flux or magnetization doesn't necessarily change at the boundaries of bit cells to indicate bit states.
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They are also used in the production of ferrites, usefulmagneticstoragemedia in computers, and pigments.
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For example, magnetic tapes contain a large number of small magnetic particles (seemagneticstorage), and these particles are not identical.
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Earlymagneticstoragedevices were designed to record analog audio signals.
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Finally, because of the small size of the bubbles, the density was in theory much higher than existingmagneticstoragedevices.
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Hierarchical storage management is a strategy that moves little-used or unused files from fastmagneticstorageto optical jukebox devices in a process called migration.
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Magneticstorageuses different patterns of magnetization in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non-volatile memory.
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The programmer had to control all transfers between electronic andmagneticstorage, and the transfers were slow and had to be reduced to a minimum.
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These then gave the way tomagneticstorage; core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives.
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However, most modern devices will report write operations as complete once the data is stored in its onboard cache memory, before the data is written to the (slow)magneticstorage.
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This illustrates the significant access-time difference which distinguishes solid-state memory from rotatingmagneticstoragedevices: hard disks are typically about a million times slower than memory.
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In the field of computing, the term "magneticstorage" is preferred and in the field of audio and video production, the term "magnetic recording" is more commonly used.
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