Walking Through 40 Years of Hard Disk Drive History

[jmacavali]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Walking-Through-40-Years-of-Hard-Disk-Drive-History-550612/


There's a little paragraph about each slideshow on the right hand side of the page. It's kind of buried by adds and junk.

 

[Jesusfrk611]

That's pretty cool. I never knew hard drives were that big to start out. 5MB won't get you anywhere now...

 

[tom-knox]

Pretty interesting, does make me wonder why we've had such speedy drives for decades and 5400RPM and 7200RPM devices still sit as standard. But a nifty find nonetheless

 

[~Darkseeker~]

i feel priviliged, i have 250GB in my laptop, 130GB in my mac and 200GB of external...

and thats not even alot compared to alot of you on here.

 

[sniperviper21]

ya, im happy with my 640GB AAKS WD drive

 

[Tommy Boy]

I remember getting a 2.1 gb hard drive and the guy at the computer store said I'd never fill that up....lol Probably early 90's. Then my computer school had 6gb hard drives in their computers and I thought those were huge, around 1998.

 

[lhuser]

You mean 50 years?

I still own a 1.6GB with the price tag on it, which read $295!
They were expensive at that time...

 

[dudelewis1]

I thought I was cramped with my 80g... and after that with my 500g lol

 

[Tommy Boy]

Well I got 950gb total in my fileserver and it's getting cramped....lol