20 YEARS Of Storage Milestones.1979 First 8-inch HDD IBM 62 PC "Piccolo" 1980 First 5.25-inch HDD Shugart Technology ST506 1981 First 3.5-inch FDD Sony OA-D3OV 1983 First 3.5-inch HDD Rodime RO 352 1983 First ODD OSI Laserdrive 1200 1985 First CD-ROM drive Philips CM100 1985 First HDD mounted on card Quantum Hardcard 1987 First magneto-optical drive Sharp JY500 1987 Last 14-inch HDD introduced IBM 3380K 1987 RAID definition University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal 1988 First 2.5-inch HDD PrairieTek 220 1988 First 1-inch-high HDD Conner Peripherals CP3022 1990 First HDD with PRML (Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) A technique used to differentiate a valid signal from noise by measuring the rate of change at various intervals of the rising waveform. encoding IBM 0681 "Redwing" 1991 First HDD with magnetoresistive See magnetoresistance. heads IBM 0663 "Corsair" 1991 First 1.8-inch HDD Integral Peripherals 1820 1991 First CD-R drive Yamaha YPR 102 1997 First CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. drive Philips CDD 3610 1997 First DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drive Hitachi GD 1000 1997 First HDD with giant magnetoresistive heads IBM Deskstar 16GP "Titan" 1999 First 1-inch HDD IBM Microdrive Note: Dates indicate start of commercial shipments, unless otherwise indicated. This report appeared courtesy of DISK/TREND, Inc. |
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