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Direct-access storage device
A
direct-access storage device
(
DASD
) pronounced ) is a
secondary storage
device in which "each physical record has a discrete location and a unique address."
IBM
developed DASDs for use with
mainframe computers
and some
minicomputers
.
Disk drives
,
magnetic drums
,
data cells
and
optical disc drives
are all classified as DASDs.
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