Magneto-resistive heads gave the an advantage over its competitors, as the bits could be stored more densely. Magneto-Optical Discs are introduced. Housed in cartridges, they are a combination a magnetic and optical storage, as their name suggests. They could be rewritten up to one million times. SanDisk, which at time was known as SunDisk, manufactured the module which used non-volatile memory chips to replace the spinning disks of a hard disk drive.
SanDisk recognized that handheld devices and computers were becoming lighter and smaller, and that flash memory, as was used in the SSD module, offered powerful advantages over hard disks.
Storage Tek announces upgrades to its ACS tape library. This tape robot was used in a variety of installations, and one was used at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center now the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to store data from experiments, providing medium-speed access to immense amounts of data. Storage Tek was one of the first major players in the automated tape library sector, and competed with IBM for market share.
When CompactFlash is introduced by SanDisk, it is quickly adopted and becomes the preferred memory storage option in many consumer as well as professional electronic devices. It was highly popular in digital still and video cameras, and although its dimensions were slightly larger than some other memory card formats, its ruggedness and high capacity made it a preferred choice.
Although most CompactFlash units used flash memory, some actually relied on a hard disk. The Iomega Zip Disk is released. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from MB to 2GB.
Two groups, made up mainly of Japanese technology companies, had been developing competing, optical disc storage formats. In order to avoid a format war akin to the VHS versus Betamax clash of the s, IBM initiated a working group of technology experts that brokered the competition. After compromises from both sides, the DVD format was formalized.
DVDs came in both read-only and read-write formats, and were widely adopted in the film industry for consumer releases of movies. Its better audio and video quality, interactivity, and improved lifespan effectively rendered the VHS format obsolete.
Its successor was the Blu-ray disc. This optical disc was used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files to various devices. It was less robust than some contemporary storage media, and could only be re-written roughly 1, times.
However, this factor seldom encumbered users who rarely overwrote data that often on one disc. At the time of their introduction, they were the smallest hard drives in the world. Like all hard drives, Microdrives were mechanical and contained small, spinning disk platters, and were more prone to physical damage from temperature fluctuations and physical shock than other storage media.
Hitachi purchased IBM's hard disk division in , which included the Microdrive. For several years, Microdrives had more data capacity than CompactFlash cards, but were soon overtaken by the these and by USB flash drives.
Many handheld, mobile devices contained embedded Microdrives for data storage. USB Flash drives are introduced. Sometimes referred to as jump drives or memory sticks, these drives consisted of flash memory encased in a small form factor container with a USB interface.
They could be used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files between various devices. They were faster and had greater data capacity than earlier storage media. Also, they could not be scratched like optical discs and were resilient to magnetic erasure, unlike floppy disks.
Drives for floppy disks and optical discs faded in popularity for desktop PCs and laptops in favor of USB ports after flash drives were introduced. Developed by a technology industry consortium, the Blu-ray optical disc is released. It was intended to be the successor to the DVD, and was designed to store high definition video at p, while older DVDs were only capable of p resolution.
The disc was named for the relatively short wavelength blue laser that reads the data on the disc, which was capable of reading data stored at a higher density compared to the red laser used for reading DVDs. A brief storage format battle ensued between Blu-ray and HD DVD, a format that was being supported in an effort spearheaded by Toshiba. Blu-ray ultimately prevailed. Amazon Web Services is launched. EC2 allowed users to rent virtual time on the cloud to scale server capacity quickly and efficiently while only paying for what was used.
Use of the cloud eliminates the need for a company to maintain a complex computing infrastructure on their own. Additionally, it saved space and hassle in the form of less onsite server room square footage. S3 was a cloud-based file hosting service that charged users monthly for the amount of data stored and for the bandwidth of transferring data.
Similar services, like Google Drive, followed suit and created their own proprietary services. Dropbox is founded by Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston. Dropbox was designed as a cloud-based service used for convenient storage and access to files. The service also included sharing functionalities which allowed access to folders by multiple users. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K used five 3. As such, the Deskstar had a greater storage capacity by a factor of , and was thousands of times smaller.
Vendors announce cloud-based network-attached storage solutions for online backup. They were designed for small and medium sized businesses in addition to general consumers. With these services, servers could automatically back up data to remote servers.
They were designed for data protection, and along with backup capability it also provided a data recovery solution. Timeline of Computer History.
By Year By Category Search. Computers Popular Culture Thin-film memory RCA thin-film memory. Victor desktop calculator Victor engineering prototype.
After 17 years of development, MySQL version 1. By , it would grow to become the database software powering half of all websites on the Internet.
Imation developed the SuperDisk drive and diskette, also called the LS It allows data to be written to a specific type of rewritable disc again and again.
The Memory Stick was released by Sony in October The Sony Memory Stick is a memory card that can only be used with Sony devices. It had a storage of capacity of 8 MB and was sold to the public starting in Google began development of Bigtable , a massively-scaling data storage system used internally for its critical applications.
The Blu-ray disc format was developed by multiple companies and introduced to the public on January 4, A Blu-ray disc can store 25 GB or 50 GB of data, depending on if it's a single-layer or dual-layer disc. Samsung released the first Blu-ray player in June The first 1 TB terabyte hard drive, developed by Hitachi , was released in January In June , he founded Dropbox, Inc.
Today, the Dropbox service has over million users worldwide, and handles approximately 4, file edits every second. Its inaugural line of 3D XPoint memory products, released later the same year, was code-named Optane.
Above: IBM Model , the first-ever hard disk drive. Above left: A MB hard disk drive from Above right: The IBM from , the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive. A hard disk drive called SyQuest was targeted for personal computers, and for many years had no relevant competition in terms of transferring large desktop publisher documents.
We mention it here mainly because it was the precursor to the CD-ROM and other optical storage solutions. It was mainly used for movies.
The first commercially available laserdisc system was available on the market late in then called Laser Videodisc and the more funkily branded DiscoVision and were The first laserdiscs had entirely analog content. The basic technology behind laserdiscs was invented all the way back in Above right: Another Laserdisc. The diskette, or floppy disk named so because they were flexible , was invented by IBM and in common use from the mids to the late s.
The first floppy disks were 8 inches, and later in came 5. The first floppy disk, introduced in , had a capacity of A read-write version came a year later. Above left: An 8-inch floppy and floppy drive next to a regular 3. Above right: The convenience of easily removable storage media.
Magnetic tape was first used for data storage in The tapes were metal and feet long meters and therefore very heavy. You could store about kB per side on a minute tape. Above left: The standard compact cassette. Above right: The Commodore Datassette is sure to bring up fond memories for people who grew up in the 80s. DECtape was a magnetic data storage introduced in used mainly with Digital Equipment Corporation computers.
The tape was 0. Above right: DECtape removable magnetic media. These were some of the best we could find, and we hope you liked them. The Selectron. The punch card.
The punch card reader and writer.
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