secondary storage

noun Computers.

storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.

Words nearby secondary storage

secondary sensory nucleus, secondary seventh chord, secondary sex characteristic, secondary sexual characteristic, secondary spermatocyte, secondary storage, secondary stress, secondary structure, secondary succession, secondary syphilis, secondary tissue

Also called auxiliary storage, external storage, secondary memory.