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Explain the difference between storage systems and memory

A storage device is a piece of hardware, such as a floppy drive or CD drive, into which a storage medium is inserted to be read from or written to.
Whereas, memory refers to computer components, devices and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time. Memory usually refers to a form of semiconductor storage known as random access memory (RAM) and sometimes other forms of fast but temporary storage.Storage more commonly refers to mass storage - optical discs, forms of magnetic storage like hard disks, and other types slower than RAM, but of a more permanent nature.

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