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The History of Hard Drives

DATA STORAGE. Over the last 50 years hard drives have come a long way from the monstrous, expensive and small capacity drives that first stored digital data. Lets take a look at what advances have been made and what the future of hard drives and data storage look like. Going Up!.

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The History of Hard Drives

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  1. DATA STORAGE Over the last 50 years hard drives have come a long way from the monstrous, expensive and small capacity drives that first stored digital data. Lets take a look at what advances have been made and what the future of hard drives and data storage look like. Going Up! Helium may be the key to even more capacity (up to 60TB!) Since Helium is less dense, it has less friction which means less heat. 7 TB? 4 TB 2011 It would take 500,000 sheets of paper to store just 1 GB of data 3 TB 2010 The Cost of Data Storage 2 TB 2009 The History of Hard Drives 1000 GB = 1 TB 2006 Seagate announces the largest drive to date, the Barracuda 7200.10 at 750GB. 1982 One of the first drives over 1GB, the 1.2GB Hitachi H-8598 weighed in at over 200 pounds! 2006 The 160GB Momentus 5400 is the first notebook hard drive to use perpendicular magnetic recording. 1956 One of the first hard drives was the IBM RAMAC 305. It was the size of 2 refrigerators and stored an amazing 5 MB! 1992 Seagate is first to release a 7200rpm hard drive, the Barracuda, with 2.1 GB of storage. 1973 The IBM 3340 Winchester hard drive was named after the .30 caliber rifle and could store 30 MB of data. Sources: PC World: History of Hard Drives Cost of Hard Drive Storage IBM Archives Online IPSJ Computer Museum Seagate 2.1GB Barracuda 160GB Momentus 5400.3 Seagate 750GB Barracuda New Largest Hard Drive Will Contain Helium

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