Hard Disk history

[mademan]

History

The first hard disk drives were created in the 1950s-1960s and were the size of a refrigerator ^[1][2] and had a capacity of a few megabytes. In 1982 the first IBM PC to have a hard disk, had a capacity of 5 megabytes [7]. The first single hard disks of terabyte size did not appear until the late 2000s. In 2012, a 1 terabyte disk drive is 2.5 inches wide and fits inside a laptop computer.

• 2007 – First 1 terabyte (≈0.9095 TiB)^[3] hard drive^[4] (Hitachi GST)
• 2008 – First 1.5 terabyte (≈1.3642 TiB)^[3] hard drive^[5] (Seagate)
• 2009 - First 2 terabyte internal 3.5″ hard drive.^[6][7][8] (Western Digital)
• 2010 - First >1 terabyte, 1.5 terabyte (≈1.3642 TiB) commercial tape system^[9]
• 2011 - First 4 terabyte drive (Hitachi) ^[10]
• 2012 - First 1 terabyte USB flash drive, sold by Victorinox.^[11]

Costs

In 1991, consumer grade, 1 gigabyte (1/1000 TB) disk drives were available for $2699 and up,^[12] and two years later prices for this capacity had dropped to $1499.^[13] By 1995, 1 GB drives could be purchased for $849.^[14]

• 2007 1 terabyte hard disk $370 ($417 adjusted for inflation)
• 2010 2 terabyte hard disk $200 ($214 adjusted for inflation)
• 2012 4 terabyte hard disk $450 (Hitachi, largest available in consumer market), 1 terabyte hard disk $100
• 2013 4 terabyte hard disk $179, 3 terabyte hard disk $129, 2 terabyte HD $100, 1 terabyte HD $80

Note: $ currency are in USD and not adjusted for inflation




Omg look at the costs,and in 2014 1 TB will be just 40$ not 370$ like in 2007


I personally have 1 TB hard disk FAT32 memory that cost me like 70E

[Future]

floppy disks i remember that

[RnD]

A fascinating topic, yes it has been interesting watching technology change and it with it the costs.  

[ehh]

bot

[mademan]

A fascinating topic, yes it has been interesting watching technology change and it with it the costs.  

The first hard disk drives were created in the 1950s-1960s and were the size of a refrigerator ^[1][2] and had a capacity of a few megabytes.

Fascinating.

In 1991, consumer grade, 1 gigabyte (1/1000 TB) disk drives were available for $2699 and up

Even the president couldn't afford that.

[Mikey]

I remember handing my work in at school on a floppy disk they cost us just £0.20 to buy a single one form the IT department

 

How times change..

[vlatkozelka]

i used to be afraid of the floppy disk slot (or whatever u call it i forgot ) , i thought as a kid that when i put my finger in there its not coming back out ..nom nom nom nom

or that it would electrocute me to death D:

[BillieJoe67]

Not sure if copy-paste from wikipedia, or asking us to check his homework

Wait; they're the same thing

 

I remember zip disks more than floppy disks

[mademan]

Not sure if copy-paste from wikipedia, or asking us to check his homework

Wait; they're the same thing

 

I remember zip disks more than floppy disks

We are not allowed to do computers science and shit in our school.