mass storage

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandstorage

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mass
adjective[before noun]
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/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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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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(Definition ofmassandstoragefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But speed is nothing without the applications processing torque that only real user memory andmassstoragespace can provide.
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It has been greatly enhanced bymassstorageincreasing capacities, which permit us to foresee long-time conservation without content loss.
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Registering our travel, themassstorageof personal details and the systematic charting of economic transactions is not liberal, nor is it tolerant or far-sighted.
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Biomass power plants could balance the grid's need for constancy of supply and hydrogen fuel cells could provide the means ofmassstorageof energy.
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During the early years of computing, when magnetic tape was the primary form ofmassstorage, many programs, notably sorting routines, required such temporary storage.
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Large archives are expensive to maintain, server farms andmassstorageis needed along with ample bandwidth to transmit it all.
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Specialized bus analyzers are also used in themassstorageindustry to analyze popular data transfer protocols between computers and drives.
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In both cases, the computer sees the card as amassstoragedevice containing image files, although software or firmware can alter this representation.
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Records can exist in any storage medium, including main memory andmassstoragedevices such as magnetic tapes or hard disks.
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Massstorageis treated as a large space pool similar to the way virtual memory is managed.
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These make it possible to connect devices that would not have operated feasibly over slower serial connections, such asmassstorage, sound, and video devices.
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The class may include more than one interface, such as a custom control interface, data interface, audio, ormassstoragerelated interfaces.
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Although flash memory has dropped in cost, the prevailing form ofmassstoragein personal computers is still the hard disk.
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Some relational databases can also be deployed onmassstoragedevices without an intermediate file system or storage manager.
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It does this by physically organizing the contents of themassstoragedevice used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments).
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Files may be allocated anywhere across any and allmassstoragedevices.
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In 2006 many factories began production of blue laser modules formassstoragedevices, and these were used in laser pointers too.
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Massstoragewas available in the form of a cassette tape interface running at 300 baud.
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Other criticism is directed towards themassstorageof email correspondence.
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Core discovered that a general lack of understanding existed among the news media and users regarding technology of different computer andmassstoragesystems.
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