The History of Storage[56K ALERT]

[skier]

comment, awe, suggest, help, sticky, correct, whatever, thought it would be REALLY cool to have one of these for almost every sub-forum




1950s: magnetic drums were the first mechanical “direct access” storage device.


1951: Magnetic Tapes, Their tape was made of metal, but later tapes have been made mostly of plastic.


1956: IBM: the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). This system could store five MBytes. It had fifty, 24-inch diameter disks!


1958: laserdisk technology was developed by David Paul Gregg in the form of a transparent disk (this technology was the predecessor to the CD)


1961: First use of zoned recording: Bryant Computer 4240 – 90 Megabytes, twenty four 39" disks


1961: IBM had invented the first disk drive with air bearing heads: IBM 1301 "Advanced Disk File" – 28 Megabytes, twenty five 24" disks


1963: First 14" disk drive and first with removable disk pack: IBM 1311 "Low Cost File" – 2.69 Megabytes, six 14" disks


1965: First voice coil actuator, first single disk cartridge drive: IBM 2310 "Ramkit" – 1.024 Megabytes, one 14" disk


1966: First disk drive with ferrite core heads: IBM 2314 -- 29.17 Megabytes, eleven 14" disks


1967: The IBM 1360 was the world’s first device capable of storing 1 trillion bits. An electron beam wrote information onto small plastic strips that were then stored in a robotic retrieval system




1969: the eight inch floppy disk drive was introduced by IBM


1969: Philips developed the Laser disk in reflective mode, which worked much better than it's transparent counter-part
{pic compares CD(right) to LD(left)}

1970: DEC Hard Drive Assembly


1971: First track-following servo system: IBM 3330-1 "Merlin" – 100 Megabytes, eleven 14" disks


1971: First flexible disk drive, read-only: IBM 23FD "Minnow" -- .0816 Megabytes, one 8" disk


1973: IBM shipped the model 3340 Winchester,The 3340 had two spindles each with a capacity of 30 MBytes


1973: First flexible disk drive to set industry standard for 8 inch diskettes: IBM 33FD "Igar" -- .156 Megabytes, one 8" disk


1975: Tape Drive(Recorder) IBM 5106 Tape Drive


1975: First disk drive with rotary actuator: IBM 62 GV "Gulliver" – 5 or 9 Megabytes, one 14" disk


1976: First 5.25 inch flexible disk drive: Shugart Associates SA400 -- .2188 Megabytes, one 5.25" disk


1976: Re-introduction of disk drive with fixed disk media: IBM 3350 "Madrid" -- 317.5 Megabytes, eight 14" disks


1976: First flexible disk drive with two sided recording: IBM 43FD "Crystal" -- .568 Megabytes, one 8" disk


1978: the StorageTek company developed the first solid-state drive.


1978: The reflective Laserdisk was finally released, Philips produced the LD players, and MCA made the disks


1979: First disk drive with thin film heads, and 2,7 encoding: IBM 3370 "New File Project" – 571.4 Megabytes, seven 14" disks


1979: First 8 inch rigid disk drive: IBM 62PC "Piccolo" – 64.5 Megabytes, six 8" disks


1980: The world's first gigabyte-capacity disk drive, the IBM 3380 was introduced, weighing 550 pounds


1980: Seagate Technology introduced the first hard disk drive for microcomputers, the ST506, It was a full height (twice as high as most current 5 1/4" drives) 5 1/4" drive, with a stepper motor, and held 5 Mbytes


1981: First 10.5 inch rigid disk drive: Fujitsu F6421 "Eagle" – 446 Megabytes, six 10.5" disks


1981: First 3.5 inch flexible disk drive: Sony OA-D3OV -- .4375 Megabytes, one 3.5" disk


1982: Morrow Designs creates the 20MB Hard Disk Drive


1982: First 9 inch rigid disk drive: Control Data 9715-160 "FSD" – 150 Megabytes, six 9" disks

1982: Apple's III External Floppy Drive(5 1/2)


1983: Philips and Sony, in consortium, successfully developed the compact disc


1983: Rodime made the first 3.5 inch rigid disk drive: RO 352 – 10 Megabytes, two 3.5" disks


1983: First 8 disk 5.25 inch disk drive, with in-hub motor: Maxtor XT-1140 – 126 Megabytes, eight 5.25" disks


1983: Iomega released the Bernoulli Box which takes high capacity Bernoulli disks( >20MB). It was the predecessor to Zip Drives


1984: Sun Microsystems released a Network File System which allowed network servers to share their storage space with networked clients


1984: The first CD-ROM drives were shipped


1984: First 8.8 inch rigid disk drive: Hitachi DK815-5 – 460 Megabytes, eight 8.8" disk

1985: The 3 1/2" IDE drive started its existence as a drive on a plug-in expansion board, or "hard card." The hard card included the drive on the controller which, in turn, evolved into Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) hard disk drive, where the controller became incorporated into the printed circuit on the bottom of the hard disk drive: Quantum Hardcard – 10.5 Megabytes, one 3.5" disk


1986: the first 3 /12" hard disks with voice coil actuators were introduced by Conner in volume, but half (1.6") and full height 5 1/4" drives persisted for several years: Conner Peripherals CP340 – 40 Megabytes, two 3.5" disks


1986: Standardization of SCSI, most commonly used on early Macs for external Hard Drives because macs did not have internal HDD bays


1987: HP Prototype DDS-1 Tape Drive


1988: Conner introduced the first one inch high 3 1/2" hard disk drives: Conner Peripherals CP3022 – 21 Megabytes, one 3.5" disk


1988: PrairieTek shipped the first 2 1/2" hard disks: PrairieTek 220 – 20 Megabytes, two 2.5" disks


1988: First 9.5 inch rigid disk drive: Hitachi DKU-86i – 1,890 Megabytes, eight 9.5" disks


1989 - Jimmy Zhu and H. Neal Bertram from UCSD proposed exchange decoupled granular microstructure for thin film disk storage media, still used today.

1989: Apple 3.5 Floppy drive


1990: PRML Technology introduced (Digital Read Channel with 'Partial Response Maximum Likelihood' algorithm) IBM 0681 "Redwing" – 857 Megabytes, twelve 5.25" disks


1991: 2.5-inch 100 megabyte hard drive

1991: First disk drive using magnetoresistive heads: IBM 0663 "Corsair" – 1,004 Megabytes, eight 3.5" disks


1991: First 1.8 inch disk drive: Integral Peripherals 1820 "Mustang" – 21.4 Megabytes, one 1.8" disk


1992: First 1.8 inch PC Card disk drives: Integral Peripherals 1841PA "Ranger" – 42.5 Megabytes, one 1.8" disk

1992: first 1.3-inch hard disk drive: Hewlett-Packard C3013A "Kittyhawk" – 21.4 Megabytes, two 1.3" disks


1993: Seagate introduced the first 7,200 RPM, Ultra ATA hard disk drive for desktop computers: ST12550 "Barracuda" – 2,139 Megabytes, ten 3.5" disks


1993: First 6.5" rigid disk drive: Hitachi H-6588-314 – 2,920 Megabytes, eight 6.5" disks

1994: IBM introduces Laser Textured Landing Zones (LZT)


1994: Sandisk releases Compactflash cards


1995: First embedded servo flexible disk drive: Zip Drives were developed in 100MB sizes, later followed by 250 and 750MB: Iomega Zip 100


1995: First 3 inch rigid disk drive: JTS N0640-2AR – 641.7 Megabytes, two 3" disks

1995: The Quantum Fireball 1.2GB HDD


1995: Philips External CD-ROM Drive


1995: the DVD was created which could be written up to 4.7GB


1995: M-Systems introduced flash-based solid-state drives


1995: Apple introduced Firewire to replace Parallel SCSI as serial SCSI eventually did, Firewire had improvements in 2000, 2002, 2006, and will in 2008


* 1994 DMA, Mode 2 at 16.6MB/s
* 1997 Ultra ATA/33 at 33.3MB/s
* 1999 Ultra ATA/66 at 66.6MB/s
* 2000 Ultra ATA/100 at 100MB/s
* 2003 PATA/133 at 133MB/s
* 2003 Serial ATA 1.5 at 150MB/s
* 2005 Serial ATA 3.0 at 300MB/s
* 2009 Serial ATA 6.0 at 600MB/s

1996: IBM introduces GMR (Giant MR) Technology for read sensors


1997: First drive using giant magnetoresistive heads: IBM Deskstar 16GP "Titan" – 16,800 Megabytes, five 3.5" disks


1997: First 10,000 RPM disk drive: Seagate Technology ST19101 "Cheetah 9" – 9,100 Megabytes, eight 3.5" disks


1998 - UltraDMA/33 and ATAPI standardized


1998: First 10,000 RPM drive with 3 inch disks: Seagate Technology ST118202 "Cheetah 18" – 18,200 Megabytes, twelve 3" disks


1998: First 12,000 RPM disk drive: Hitachi DK3E1T-91 – 9,200 Megabytes, nine 2.5" disks

1999: IBM releases the Microdrive in 170 MB and 340 MB capacities.


2000: the first SD (Secure Digital) card was produced jointly by Sandisk, Toshiba and Panasonic


2000: Trek Technology and IBM began selling the first USB flash drives commercially(8MB)


2000: Seagate unveils the first 15,000 RPM HDD: Seagate Technology ST318451 "Cheetah X15" – 18,350 Megabytes, three 2.5" disks


2001: talk of Holographic data storage, which is said to be capable of recording and reading millions of bits in parallel, enabling data transfer rates greater than those attained by optical storage.


2002: 137 GB addressing space barrier broken

2003: CeBIT: Sandisk released MiniSD cards in 16MB size


2003: Serial ATA introduced


April 2003: Blu-Ray became commercially available, though only in Japan with single Layer Disks of size 25GB, and Dual Layer 50GB disks available


2004: eSATA, External SATA became standardized


2005: Introduction of faster SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)


2005: First 500 GB hard drive shipping (Hitachi GST)


2005: InPhase conducts the first public demonstrations of holographic storage at the National Association of Broadcasters convention


2005: Serial ATA 3G standardized


2005: Perpendicular recording introduced in consumer HDDs


2005: First .85" disk Drive: Toshiba


2005: the i-RAM is a solid-state drive produced by Gigabyte which has four DIMM slots to allow PC DDR RAM to be used to store data.


2005: at CeBit, IBM introduces Millipede memory, non-volatile computer memory stored on nanoscopic pits burned into the surface of a thin polymer layer, read and written by a MEMS-based probe, can hold more than 1 terabit per square inch.


2006: First 200 GB 2.5" hard drive utilizing Perpendicular recording (Toshiba)


2006: First 750 GB hard drive


2006: MicroSD cards introduced, primarily used in cell phones, in up to 2GB capacities


2006: BD-ROM(Blu-Ray Disks) had become available in the US following DRM protection and Specification finalizations


2006: hybrid Disk Drives are designed


2006: Fujitsu develops heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that could one day achieve one terabit per square inch densities.


December 11, 2006: Advanced Media, Inc. is set to add a non-volatile Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) storage medium to its RIDATA line. It is available in 16 GB and 32GB capacities.


2007:Hybrid Disk Drives are released by Samsung for Notebook Computers


2007: Hitachi GST introduces 1 terabyte hard drive


January 2007: A-DATA introduced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 (January 2007) SSD drives at capacities of 32 GB, 64 GB (1.8" model) and 128 GB (2.5" model)


2007: Hard Drive Docks were Produced for internal Hard Drives made external, using the USB or eSATA interface


January 2008: CompactFlash cards reach 64GB in size


February 2008: the High Definition Media War is over: Blu-Ray had won


2008: USB Flash Drives now also reach the size of 64GB


2008: Micro SD cards Reach 12GB capacities


May 2008: SSD's size reaches 256GB: Samsung announces increase in capacity of its flash-based SSD line to 256 GB


2008: Seagate announced the first 1.5 terabyte hard drive


2008: Micron Introduces RealSSD's, a performance increased SSD


Sep 2008: Intel launches the fastest SSD(or hard drive for that matter) in existance, the 80 & 160 GB Intel X25M SSD using intel's own controller and NAND flash memory


2008?: Addonics releases a CF - SATA HDD Adapter, to make up to two Compact Flash cards (possibly in RAID) act as a Solid State Drive(though slightly slower, but much cheaper)


Jan 27th, 2009: Western Digital Announces the world's largest capacity HDD to date, holding 2TB, as part of their "Cool and Quiet, Caviar Green" series with a 5400RPM spindle speed


Feb 4th 2009: Seagate intros the 7,200rpm 2TB Constellation ES, first 2TB Drive to run at 7200RPM


April 8th 2009: Super Talent Announces the first 512GB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive


April 17 2009: OCZ Technology Introduces MiniPCI–Express Solid State Drives


April 23 2009: OCZ Technology Announces the Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD for Enthusiasts with up to One Terabyte of Storage


June 5th 2009: A-DATA unveils the world's slimmest Portable Hard Disk Drive, the NH92


June 9th 2009: WD Intros first 4TB External Hard Drive, the My Book Studio Edition Dual-drive External Storage System


June 29 2009: Super Talent Ships New Line of Flash Disk Modules That incorporate a standard IDE hard drive interface and use solid state NAND flash as the storage media, 8, 16 32GB


July 14th 2009: Seagate Releases Cheetah 15K.7 Enterprise Hard Drives in record 600GB capacity


July 21st 2009: Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives, The Intel X25-M


July 22nd 2009: A-DATA Announces Turbo Series SDHC Class 10 Memory Card


July 27th 2009: Western Digital Ships First 1TB Mobile Hard Drive, the WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB (model WD10TEVT)


July 29th 2009: Samsung Launches The Spinpoint F3 which utilizes advanced 500GB per platter technology, so that two-platter 1TB capacity is achieved.


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[Alathald]

And the old drives that either burn out or drop out all join together to form a cover band with other ancient equipment [link]

Awesome writeup and a great idea btw!

[martini161]

good write up! you should have some stuff on firewire in there.

[skier]

good write up! you should have some stuff on firewire in there.

actually, i have no external Hard Drives! too late tonight, so tomorrow i'll add 'em(if i can find rough release dates )

and thanks, and if anyone has some spare time they can make one of these for other components(RAM, Intel CPUs/Mobos, AMD CPUs/Mobos, etc.)

the main part took about 4 hours, and it took two hours to figure out what [img] wasn't allowing me to post because PHPBB "could not determine the size of the image" because 1 was a link to a site not just a pic, and another two were too large

[ScottLovesDogs]

There are at least two inaccuracies here:

IBM did not "develop" the 5 1/2" floppy, Shugart did, after a famous meeting between two of their employees and An Wang, at which Wang (Wang Computers) complained about the unwieldly size of the 8" floppy (which was developed by IBM).

Second, the first 15,000 rpm drive was not released in 2008, it was some time ago. It was a Seagate Cheetah, though. The 15K.5, in Seagate nomenclature, means 15K rpm, 5th generation. The original 15K series, or whatever they called it back then, was the first 15,000 rpm drive, and it was available several years ago. Seagate is now on the 6th generation of these drives, the 15K.6.

The original post is a great start on a valuable and interesting topic that would make a great stickie or sticky. A bit of clean up /verification work would make it outstanding.

[DMB2000uk]

There are at least two inaccuracies here:

IBM did not "develop" the 5 1/2" floppy, Shugart did, after a famous meeting between two of their employees and An Wang, at which Wang (Wang Computers) complained about the unwieldly size of the 8" floppy (which was developed by IBM).

Second, the first 15,000 rpm drive was not released in 2008, it was some time ago. It was a Seagate Cheetah, though. The 15K.5, in Seagate nomenclature, means 15K rpm, 5th generation. The original 15K series, or whatever they called it back then, was the first 15,000 rpm drive, and it was available several years ago. Seagate is now on the 6th generation of these drives, the 15K.6.

The original post is a great start on a valuable and interesting topic that would make a great stickie or sticky. A bit of clean up /verification work would make it outstanding.

Think of this as more of a community effort than one man's attempt at getting it all right first time.

I commend Skierkids efforts, and in the 4hours he sourced and compiled all that information I'm sure we can let him off with some initial mistakes.

If you (or anyone reading) can expand on Skierkid's 'brief' history then please do.

Dan

[pwcmed]

I actually worked on something that is very similar to the 1980 drive about 8 years ago.

[martini161]

when i was on vacation my wife and i went into an antique shop and i couldnt help my self when i saw an old apple quadra 700. the funniest part was that the lady said "Oh its not that old!" its from 1991

[skier]

major update tons more pics, several fixed pics(pic of wrong things) more entries, ALL pics now are hosted not stolen

still have to look it over and fix a couple more innacurate pics

[skier]

ten more pics to 85, and external/HDD docks coming soon

[FZ1]

Good job skierkid. You might want to use this for a school report sometime in the future

[skier]

updated: SD, MiniSD, Micro SD, Firewire, HDD Dock, and eSATA

edit: also updated picture sizes to accomodate 1024x768 monitors(there is still one picture a few pixels too wide, but it looses some of the image when resized)

[w00fd06]

looks good so far!! It will be interesting if this idea is expanded and becomes a part of this site, I wish you luck on your journey!

[vicaphit]

I always enjoy seeing the evolution of the computer. You did very well!

HAH! 1GB that weighs 550lbs...

[Alathald]

HAH! 1GB that weighs 550lbs...

Yeah, pretty wild considering I just gave away a flash drive about that size with DSL to a friend whose laptop HD crapped out...and I'm a cheap bastard that never gives anything away

[Dragon_Cooler]

It is pretty amazing how far we have come! Two things that i look back on...

1. Spending $60 on a 20GB drive at bestbuy in early 00
2. The next day finding a new 80GB drive for the same price and being ecstatic!!!

man oh man, oh how the days just fly by!

[kappage]

my oldman always remind me of in 1988 or 1989 his friend bought some ridiculously small hard drive for like $500 AUD (back then it was alot of money) i think he still has it too.

[vicaphit]

Take a look at ram, I was talking to an IT guy who said ram used to be $1000 per MB!

[skier]

has there been any new stuff coming out in storage? i havnt been paying close attention here

[DMB2000uk]

Intel X25M SSD should probably get a mention.

Dan