| Subject | English | German |
| gen. | primary storage | Hauptspeicher |
| tech. | primary storage | Primärspeicher |
| IT | primary storage | Arbeitsspeicher |
| IT | primary storage | Zentralspeicher |
| IT | primary storage | innerer Speicher |
| tech. | primary storage | interner Hauptspeicher |
| comp., MS | primary storage device | primäres Speichergerät (A storage device that holds data in temporary memory such as RAM) |