The History of Hard Drives

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Tip 1 - Timeline: 50 Years of Hard Drives

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Brandie Tucker | permalink

A look at the history of hard drives.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/127105/article.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - The History Of The Hard Drive And Its Future

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Chris Prochak | permalink

Travel back in time to check out development of the hard drive plus take a peek into where the storage technology is headed.
Tags: hard drives, storage, cloud storage, ibm, HAMR technology

For further reading: http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/240142353/the-history-of-the-hard-drive-and-its-future.htm ^[2]

Tip 3 - History of the hard drive

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Sean Kenealy | permalink

The first hard drive was invented in early 1956, at the request of the US Air Force, by the company IBM. It was called the RAMAC 305 (with the name standing for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), a group of 50 aluminium disks each 61 cm...

For further reading: http://en.kioskea.net/contents/237-history-of-the-hard-drive ^[3]

Tip 4 - SSD vs. HDD: What's the Difference?

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bettina Cutler | permalink

A hard drive is a hard drive, right? Not exactly. We lay out the differences between SSD and HDD storage to help you figure out which type is the best choice.
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For further reading: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404259,00.asp ^[4]

Tip 5 - A brief history of the hard drive

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Stefan Zilliacus | permalink

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet—and in tons. Today, we have flash drives, microdrives, and onboard solid-state drives that weigh almost nothing, hold gigabytes of data and cost (compared to the 1950s) very little.

For further reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/1156757/computerhistorymuseum.html ^[5]

Tip 6 - Tech Time Warp of the Week: The World's First Hard Drive, 1956 | WIRED

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by d 0s | permalink

IBM unleashed the world's first computer hard drive in 1956. It was bigger than a refrigerator. It weighed more than a ton. And it looked like one of those massive cylindrical air conditioning units that used to sit outside your grade school cafeteria.

For further reading: http://www.wired.com/2014/01/tech-time-warp-ibm-ramac/ ^[6]