A Historical Look at Digital Data Storage

-a historical look at - DATA STORAGE Seagate releases the ST-506: Average Price/Megabyte The first 5.25 inch HDD 9. 8 $300 In 1969 the first floppy 1 disk was introduced. It $280 8 1 was a read-only 8 inch disk that could store only 80kB of data. $260 8 Lisa was introduced at a price of $9,995 featuring 2 MB of RAM. This computer is often regarded as one of Apple's Creative Computing magazine runs an article asking, "Can I really get a 10 megabyte hard disk that's reliable for only $695?" 2 greatest commercial failures. $195 8 3 Max Megabytes Per Storage Type 10000000 4194304 $175 lilul 8 1048576 4 1000000 102400 100000 65596 51200 30720 8704 10000 $71 8 1000 700 100 $68 10 1.44 DVD Floppy Compact Compact Disk 2.5" Por- USB Flash HD-DVD Blu-Ray Hard Disk table HD 1 Disk Flash Drive Drive $65 SanDisk was founded by Dr. Eli Harari and Sanjay Mehrotra. These non- volatile memory technology experts helped to pioneer flash memory. $40 Moore's Law: 8 In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, noted that the amount of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on a circuit had doubled every year since their invention. He predicted that this would double every 2 years and it has held true until present day. Transistors $36 9. 10,000,000,000 Dual-Core Intel Itanium TM2 Processor 1,000,000,000 Intel Itanium TM 2 Processor Intel Itanium TM Processor $12 100,000,000 Intel Pentium TM 4 Processor Intel Pentium III Processor Intel Pentium T Processor 10,000,000 Intel Pentium TM Processor $7 Intel486 TM Processor 1,000,000 Intel 386 TM Processor 1 9. 286 100,000 $4 8086 10,000 8080 8008 4004 9. 1,000 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 $2 3 The JPEG standard is officially approved. The capabilities of many digital devices are linked to Moore's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. 95¢ 4 Binary Digit 1 Bit = 8 Bits = 1 75¢ Byte Laser Optical Tape Stor- age was developed into a thinner, higher capac- ity optical tape and a new writing head that used a green laser split 1000 Kilobytes 1000 Megabytes 1000 Gigabytes 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte =1 Megabyte = 1 Gigabyte = 1 Terabyte 9. 24¢ into 64 beams that would write data to the tape. 9. 9. 11¢ 1 7¢ "In 1855, it cost five cents to send one word from Philadelphia to St. Louis. In 1998, it costs 4.5 9. 3¢ 9. cents to store 1.5 million bytes of information that can be sent anywhere in Disk Storage Translations: l¢ the world with the click of a mouse, virtually for Average Price/Gigabyte free." $6.08 A quick look at two storage Seagate introduces a high performance 7,200rpm drive with the highest capacity in the world. giants: $2.97 Revenue: $11.395 billion Founded: 1979 $1.72 Knewn for. 3 Seagate Western Digital Microsoft's Xbox WD shipped with Seagate HD $1.32 4 Revenue: $9.850 billion 67¢ Founded: 1970 Western Digital launches its 10,000- rpm Raptor X SATA hard drive, boosting its capacity to 150GB Known for. 51¢ Creating the first SATA drive running at 10,000 rpm 6 Seagate releases world's first 1.5 TB hard drive 35¢ Seagate releases world's first 3 TB hard drive 27¢ CREATED BY: 19¢ Joey Klein Chris Alcaro 11¢ Kevin Carroll 8¢ The United States Navy bought 2,200 PlayStation 3 game consoles. The PS3S were linked together and are being used to conduct supercomputing research. Ronak Patel Created for Social Media Innovation at Temple University. http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis3538b2/ Sources: 1. "Computer Memory Timeline." Timeline Help. http://www.timeline-help.com/computer-memory-timeline.html 2. "History of Data Storage." Fosfor Gadgets. http://gadgets.fosfor.se/history-of-data-storage/ 3. "Improved Data Storage via an Optical Tape Drive." Research and Data for Status Report. 1995. http://statusreports.atp.nist.gov/reports/95-03-0023.htm 4. "Cost of Hard Drive Space." Smith, Ivan. Nova Scotia's Electric Gleaner. http://ns1758.ca/winch/winchest.html NO00