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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