15 Years Of Hard Drive History: Capacities Outran Performance

[Guest]

We've got quad-core processors, gigabytes of RAM and awesome graphics. But what has been going on with hard drives during all the time that these goodies have been developed? Capacities have multiplied and will hit one terabyte per drive soon, but as we'll see, performance hasn't been able to keep up the pace.

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[Guest]

There is a typo in the article:

Quantum's Fireball was available about five years after the 40 GB Maxtor drive discussed above,

It should be 40MB, obviously

 

[badcat]

"And Samsung, finally, may have a decent advantage in the future with a possible hybrid hard drive; it is the only firm in this quartet that manufactures both magnetic and Flash storage." WRONG! This technology existed in enterprise level hard disks for some time now.

 

[Guest]

i am still looking a 40Mb hard disk for my machine in 386dx