High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion. Devices and/or systems that have been described as mass storage include tape libraries, RAID systems, hard disk drives, magnetic tape drives, optical disc drives, magneto-optical disc drives, drum memory, floppy disk drives, punched tape and holographic memory. Mass storage includes devices with removable and non-removable media. It does not include random access memory, which is volatile in that it loses its contents after power loss. The word "mass" is largely semantic; however, the term is used to refer to storage devices of any size. Mass storage devices are characterized by: Sustainable transfer speed, Seek time, Cost, Capacity. Today, magnetic disks are the predominant storage media in personal computers. Optical discs, however, are almost exclusively used in the large-scale distribution of retail software, music and movies because of the cost and manufacturing efficiency of the molding process used to produce DVD and compact discs.

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