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direct-access storage device

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | 274 words | Copyright

direct-access storage device (DASD) One of a class of storage devices in which physical records are addressable and can therefore be accessed in any order: a sequential search is not required. For all practical purposes direct-access storage is synonymous with disk storage.

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