Chapter 5 Storage Devices - FTMS

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• Typically it involves a robotic mechanism which will mount (insert) and dismount removable mass storage media into a storage device. • It is a comprehensive computer storage system that is usually very slow, so it is usually used to archive data that is not accessed frequently. • This is primarily useful for extraordinarily large data

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