Ja nu kāds cepas ka kaut kas ir aizmirst vai grib tālāk zināt, kas notika ar HDD attīstību.
1971: The first flexible read-only disk drive - IBM 23FD - was launched with a capacity of 0.0816 MB capacity and a single 8-inch disk.
1973: IBM announces the 3340, which is the first modern "Winchester" hard drive. This drive is the first one to feature low-massheads, lubricated disks and sealed assembly. The drive has a capacity of 35 or 70 MB and features two or four 14-inch disks.
1975: IBM 62 GV "Gulliver" with 5 or 9 MB capacity and one 14-inch disk becomes the first disk drive with rotary actuator.
1976: IBM reintroduced disk drive with fixed disk media - 3350 "Madrid" - with 317.5 MB and eight 14-inch disks.
1976: IBM launches the 43FD "Crystal", which is the first flexible disk drive with two-sided recording, capacity of 0.568 MB and consisted of one 8-inch disk.
1976: Shugart Associates SA400 is the first 5.25-inch flexible disk drive with a capacity of 0.2188 MB and a single 5.25-inch disk.
IBM 3370 1979: IBM launches the first disk drive with thin film heads - 3370 - which has a capacity of 571 MB and seven 14-inch platters.
1979: IBM's 62PC "Piccolo" with 64 MB and using six 8-inch platters is the first 8-inch rigid disk drive.
1979: Fujitsu introduces the first 10.5-inch rigid disk drive - F6421 "Eagle" - with 446MB and six 10.5-inch platters.
1979: Seagate Technology launches ST-506, which is the first 5.25-inch rigid disk drive with 5 MB capacity and four 5.25-inch platters.
1980: The first gigabyte hard disk drive is introduced by IBM. The IBM 3380 is the size of a refrigerator, weighs around 250 kg and costs $40,000.
1981: Sony also enters the fray and introduces the first 3.5-inch flexible disk drive - OA-D3OV with a capacity of 0.4375 MB and consisting of a single 3.5-inch disk.
1983: Rodime announces the first 3.5-inch rigid disk drive - RO352 - which has two platters and a storage capacity of 10MB.
1982: Control Data 9715-160 is the first 9-inch rigid disk drive with six disks and 150 MB capacity.
1983: Maxtor brings out the XT-1140, which is the first eight disk 5.25-inch disk drive with in-hub motor. It has a capacity of 126 MB.
1984: Hitachi launches the first 8.8-inch rigid disk drive - DK815-5 - with eight disks and 460 MB capacity.
1985: Control Data, Compaq Computer and Western Digital together develop the 40-pin IDE (Intelligent Drive Electronics or Integrated Drive Electronics) interface. IDE becomes the most popular standard for more than two decades from here.
1985: Imprimis integrates the first hard drive controller into a disk drive.
1985: Quantum introduces the Plus Hardcard allowing the addition of a hard drive without an available bay or a separate controller card. Quantum Hardcard is the first disk drive mounted on the card with a capacity of 10.5 MB and a 3.5-inch disk.
1985: Western Digital develops the first ESDI (Enhanced Small Device Interface) controller board allowing larger capacity and faster drives to be used in PCs.
1986: Conner Peripherals launches the CP340, which is the first voice coil actuator 3.5-inch disk drive. It has a capacity of 40 MB and two 3.5-inch disks.
1986: Apple Computer's Mac Plus is one of the first computers to use SCSI interface as soon as the spec is released.
--------------------- 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. 1988 - PrairieTek 220 – 20 Megabytes, two 2.5" disks, First 2.5 inch HDD. 1989 – Jimmy Zhu and H. Neal Bertram from UCSD proposed exchange decoupled granular microstructure for thin film disk storage media, still used today. 1990 – 1990 IBM 0681 "Redwing" – 857 Megabytes, twelve 5.25" disks. First HDD with PRML Technology (Digital Read Channel with 'Partial Response Maximum Likelihood' algorithm) 1991 - IBM 0663 "Corsair" – 1,004 Megabytes, eight 3.5" disks; first HDD using magnetoresistive heads 1991 - Integral Peripherals 1820 "Mustang" – 21.4 Megabytes, one 1.8" disk, first 1.8 inch HDD[15] 1992 – HP Kittyhawk first 1.3-inch hard-disk drive – 1993 – IBM 3390 model 9, the last Single Large Expensive Disk drive announced by IBM 1994 – IBM introduces Laser Textured Landing Zones (LZT) 1997 – IBM Deskstar 16GP "Titan" – 16,800 Megabytes, five 3.5" disks; first (Giant Magnetoresistance) heads 1997 – Seagate introduces the first hard drive with fluid bearings[16] 1998 – UltraDMA/33 and ATAPI standardized 1999 – IBM releases the Microdrive in 170 MB and 340 MB capacities 2002 – 137 GB addressing space barrier broken 2003 – Serial ATA introduced 2003 – IBM sells disk drive division to Hitachi 2004 – MK2001MTN first 0.85 inch drive released by IBM with capacity of 2 gigabytes[15] 2005 – First 500 GB hard drive shipping (Hitachi GST) 2005 – Serial ATA 3Gbit/s standardized 2005 – Seagate introduces Tunnel MagnetoResistive Read Sensor (TMR) and Thermal Spacing Control 2005 – Introduction of faster SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) 2005 – First Perpendicular recording HDD shipped: Toshiba 1.8-inch 40/80 GB[17] 2006 – First 750 GB hard drive (Seagate) 2006 – First 200 GB 2.5" hard drive utilizing Perpendicular recording (Toshiba) 2006 – Fujitsu develops heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that could one day achieve one terabit per square inch densities.[18] 2007 – First 1 terabyte[19] hard drive[20] (Hitachi GST) 2008 – First 1.5 terabyte[19] hard drive[21] (Seagate) 2009 – First 2.0 terabyte hard drive[22] (Western Digital) 2010 – First 3.0 terabyte hard drive[23][24] (Seagate, Western Digital) 2010 – First Hard Drive Manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096 bytes a block ("4K") instead of 512 bytes a block[25] 2011 – First 4.0 terabyte hard drive[26] (Seagate) 2012 - Western Digital announces the first 2.5-inch, 5mm thick drive, and the first 2.5-inch, 7mm thick drive with two platters.[27] (Western Digital) 2012 - HGST announces helium-filled hard disk drives, promising cooler operation and the ability to increase the maximum number of platters from five to seven in the 3.5" form factor.[28] (Hitachi GST) 2012 - TDK demonstrates 2TB on a single 3.5-inch platter [29]