The term may also refer to the storage of data by the transfer processing system on media such as magnetic tape or disk such that the user may not have direct and immediate access to the data.

该术语也可指转帐处理系统将数据存储于如磁带、磁盘等介质上，使得用户不能直接和立即访问数据。

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Until recently the longest living storage media has been magnetic tape which may be kept as long at 30 years in the right environment with good odds that the data can be read back (assuming that the playback devices for that media still exist).

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The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.

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