{"id":16497,"date":"2016-12-01T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:08:54","slug":"a-history-of-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/a-history-of-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Hard Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/history-hard-drives\/\">Peter Cohen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/history-hard-drives\/\">\n<p>IBM made the first commercial hard disk drive-based computer and called it RAMAC &#8211; short for &ldquo;Random Access Method of Accounting And Control.&rdquo; Its storage system was called the IBM 350. RAMAC was big &#8211; it required an entire room to operate. The hard disk drive storage system alone was about the size of two refrigerators. Inside were stacked 50 24-inch platters. <\/p>\n<p>For that, RAMAC customers ended up with less than 5 MB &#8211; that&rsquo;s right, <em>megabytes<\/em> of storage.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, a young upstart company named Shugart Technology introduced a 5 MB hard disk drive designed to fit into personal computers of the day. It was a scant 5.25 inches in diameter. The drive cost $1,500. It would prove popular enough to become a de facto standard for PCs throughout the 1980s. Shugart changed its name to Seagate Technology.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no question that the hard drive market is in a period of decline and transition. Hard disk drive sales are down year-over-year. Consumers switch to SSD or move away from Macs and PCs altogether and do more of their work on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Innovation and development of hard drives continue apace. We&rsquo;re populating our own Storage Pods with 8 TB hard drives. 10 TB hard drives are already shipping, and even higher-capacity 3.5-inch drives are on the horizon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Cohen: IBM made the first commercial hard disk drive-based computer and called it RAMAC &#8211; short for &ldquo;Random Access Method of Accounting And Control.&rdquo; Its storage system was called the IBM 350. RAMAC was big &#8211; it required an entire room to operate. The hard disk drive storage system alone was about the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[534,452,295,697,30,174],"class_list":["post-16497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backblaze","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-ibm","tag-mac","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16498,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions\/16498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}