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mass storage An online backing store system capable of storing larger quantities of data (sometimes an order of magnitude more) than conventional backing store. The quoted capacity of mass storage has increased with advances in technology: in the early 1960s a megabyte of storage came in this category; the term currently applies to devices that can store terabytes of data.

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