track, Where data is stored on a hard disk, pit, Dip burnt into optical storage to represent a binary value of 1, land, unburnt part of optical storage used to represent a binary value of 0, optical, type of storage media which uses a laser to read information, magnetic, storage technology used on hard disks - think north/south, electrons, what are trapped in a membrane for solid state drives, head, The part of a hard disk that reads and writes data, tape, Offline magnetic storage used for backups, primary, fast, potentially volatile, storage near the processors - think Gb, secondary, non-volatile storage used for files, applications and OS think Tb, cloud, storage on the internet

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