Floppydrive

Innovations in computer storage devices

By Stalgia

  • Magnetic disk hard drive (HD)

    Magnetic disk hard drive (HD)
    The first spinning magnetic hard drive was made in June 1956 by IBM. This first hard drive was larger than most modern computers, and that's just one part of a computer.

  • Floppy Disks

    Floppy Disks
    The Floppy Disk was invented on June 6th, 1972 by Ralph Flores and Herbert E. Thompson. The Floppy Disk was one of the first data storage devices that allowed data to be easily shared between multiple computers and users.

  • Compact Disc (CD)

    Compact Disc (CD)
    The CD was invented in November of 1980 by inventor James Russell. The CD was able to store more data than the floppy disk and wasn't as fragile.

  • Solid State Hard drive (SSD)

    Solid State Hard drive (SSD)
    The Solid State Drive was in 1980 by Fujio Masuoka working at Toshiba but was not released to the market until 1987.

  • Thumb drive

    Thumb drive
    The modern thumb drive was invented in the year 2000 by Pua Khein-Seng and Dov Moran. The Thumb drive gets its name due to the fact that it's the size of a human thumb.