The Evolution of Data Storage

The Evolution of Data Storage IBM 305 first commercial disk drive, 5 million characters 1956 O IBM 1311 weigh - 1 ton |1962 storing 2 million characters per pack Floppy Disk shape-loading washing machine 1976 First 5 1/4-inch O IBM 3370 Floppy Disk Formatted storage capacity 500.5 kB Direct Access 1979 Storage Device O ST-506 7 fixed 14-inch (360 mm) disks First 5.25 inch hard disk drive 1980 3.5 " Diskette 5 megabytes after formatting 1981 First commercialized floppy disk RO351/RO352 3.5 inch Floppy disk first 3½ inch drive released PrairieTek 220 1983 capacity of 10 megabytes 20 MB formatted 1988 сарacity Western Digital caviar 2.5-inch prime hard disk Caviar drives introduced 1990 O IBM 0663 16bit data transfer 1,004 Megabytes, 1991 first HDD using magnetoresistive heads Seagate Barracuda 1///77 CD rom World's fastest hard disk 1992 Speed 113mbit/second widespread in personal computers O Zip drive 1994 Speed 650MB Most Popular of the super floppies 1994 IBM Deskstar launched with capacities of 100 MB first (Giant 1997 Magnetoresistance) heads Microdrive 16,800 Megabytes, five 3.5" disks. Capacity of 170 MB 1999 Crive" weigh 16 g (~1/2 oz) Seagate Cheetah Western Digital Raptor First drive to operate at 15,000 Revolutions Per Minute 2000 First 10,000 rpm sata drive 2003 capacity of 37 GB on a single platter SDHC Memory Card Second iteration of Seagate Barracuda 7200 Extreme :45MB/ 1 secure digital memory cards 2006 Provides up to 64GB of storage SanDisk Largest hard drive of its type to date 2006 Memory Stick XC Speed 7200 RPM Extended High Capacity SONY 2009 Pendrive MEMORY STICK XC-HG Duo Memory Stick XC has a maximum 2 2TB MAGICGATE ТВ сарасity USB flash USB 2.0 connectivity have 2013 Hi-Speed specification has a 480 Megabit per second Infographics created by www.redcloudinc.net