The Rise and Fall of Hard Disk Drives: A Tech Marvel
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Join us in unraveling the fascinating history of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and the extraordinary engineering feats behind them! Discover how magnetically enabled heads glide over glass platters to read/write data, and explore the profound financial challenges faced by the industry. Dive into Johnson's genius invention for grading multiple-choice tests and IBM's pioneering development of random access processing systems. From early magnetic media to the creation of the groundbreaking 305 RAMAC and the revolutionary Winchester drive, this video covers pivotal moments that shaped the HDD market. Witness the relentless pursuit of innovation despite fierce competition and economic hurdles.
🔍 Keywords: Hard Disk Drives, HDD history, engineering marvels, IBM, Johnson's invention, magnetic media, Winchester drive, 305 RAMAC, Seagate Technology
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Kruschev toured the San Jose facility on his US visit. He was not, according to son Sergi, impressed with RAMAC (or computers in general). What impressed him most was--wait for it--Formica. He had lunch in the IBM employee cafeteria (self-service) and ate at a "plastic-covered" table. He remarked how easily it could be cleaned (compared to factory commissaries in the USSR where everyone ate on filthy table cloths). In his memoirs, Kruschev went on and on about the IBM cafeteria with their Formica tables as well as the yellow (French's) mustard he had on his hot dog in Iowa but said nothing about seeing the first hard drive. He was a peasant after all.
Fascinating. My introduction to HDDs was when I worked for Burroughs on the Series L machines in the early 1970s. These drives were head-per-track, the heads being fixed solidly to the chassis, and the disk was single sided ceramic about 1 cm thick and coated with iron oxide.
what fall. People still use Hard drives the only change is people don't use them for boot drives. Hard drives are still the cheapest way to get high amounts of mass storage into a system.
Exactly, HDDs are what powers everything on the internet. SSDs are only used as cache for most used data, but all data ever generated is still stored on HDDs.
Only because your personal notebook has a SSD, that doesn't mean HDDs are obsolete.
Ever try to process more than 2TB of data a go see how expensive SSDs become, I have 36TB of spinning "rust" on my workstation.
Worst than that is IBM press claiming from time to time that the hierarchy of memory won't exist anymore.
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There has been a lot of progress over the years with the multiple spinning platter hard disk drive. Around 1970 the first hard disk drive I saw was a peripheral on an IBM 1620 computer. It was nearly as large as a washing machine and had only 2 megabytes of storage. Today I have sitting on my dining room table next to my home computer a 4 terabyte hard disk drive that I can easily carry in my hand that is used as a backup copy drive. The desktop computer has a fast Solid State Drive in it. However for backup copy purposes an external hard disk drive works great.
I heard all the buzzwords I've not thought about in decades. I miss the Winchester drives... They were great paperweights.
Today they are only 3 manufactures of hard disk drives
Good video, but too bad it ends so abruptly/inconclusively.
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Nice video, thanks for doing it!
You bet!
Groovy article. Thanks!
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Groovy? You're thinking of "phonograph records", right? Cheers ErrON-T
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Outstanding video (and production value - the BBC will be calling:). Top notch. This should be required viewing for all Thank you. Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd House On the Left (please call before stopping by).
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