Technology

Timeline of Technology

By dtarr

  • First Hard Drive

    First Hard Drive
    IBM made the first hard drive in 1956. It was called the RAMAC 305. It was able to hold 5MB of data which is 5 million characters. It would cost $10,000 a MB to store data on the hard drive. The system was as big as two refrigerators.

  • First Removable Hard Drive.

    First Removable Hard Drive.
    IBM comes up with the first removable hard drive, the 1311. It had 6 removable disks which could store 2MB each.

  • First modern "winchester" Hard Drive.

    IBM announces the 3340, the first modern "Winchester" hard drive.

  • Seagate Is Founded

    Seagate Technology is founded by Al Shurgart. The company is based on manufacturing hard drives.

  • First 1GB Hard Drive

    IBM introduces the first gigabyte hard drive. It is the size of a refrigerator, weighs about 550 pounds, and costs $40,000.

  • First 5.25in Drive By Seagate

    Seagate releases the first 5.25-inch hard disk.

  • First Single Chip Hard Drive Ia Introduced

    Western Digital announces the first single-chip Winchester hard drive controller

  • Western Digital Sets Industry Standards

    Western Digital makes the first Winchester hard drive controller card for the IBM PC/AT--and sets an industry standard

  • The First 40-pin IDE Interface Is introduced

    Control Data, Compaq Computer, and Western Digital collaborate to develop the 40-pin IDE interface. IDE stands for Intelligent Drive Electronics, more commonly known as Integrated Drive Electronics

  • The SCSI Spec is Released

    The official SCSI spec is released; Apple Computer's Mac Plus is one of the first computers to use it. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols and electrical and optical interfaces.

  • WD Buys The Disk-Drive Assets Of Tandon Corporation

    Western Digital buys the disk-drive assets of Tandon Corporation with an eye to manufacturing IDE drives

  • WD Introduced Its First 3.5IN Caviar IDE Drive.

    Western Digital introduces its first 3.5-inch Caviar IDE hard drive.

  • First 7200RPM Drive Is Marketed

    Seagate is first to market with a 7200-revolutions-per-minute hard drive, the 2.1GB Barracuda.

  • WD develops Enhanced IDE

    Western Digital develops Enhanced IDE, an improved hard drive interface that breaks the 528MB-throughput barrier. EIDE also allows for attachment of optical and tape drives.

  • IBM Introduces The Largest Hard Drive To Date

    IBM introduces the first drive using giant magneto resistive (GMR) heads, the 16.8GB Deskstar 16GP Titan, which stores 16.8GB on five 3.5-inch platters.

  • Maxtor Buys Quantum's Hard Drive Buisness.

    Maxtor buys competitor Quantum's hard drive business. At the time, Quantum is the number-two drive maker, behind Seagate; this acquisition makes Maxtor the world's largest hard drive manufacturer.

  • First 15,000-RPM Hard Drive

    Seagate produces the first 15,000-rpm hard drive, the Cheetah X15.

  • IBM Comes To A End With Their Invlovment With Disk Drives.

    IBM sells its Data Storage Division to Hitachi, thus ending its involvement in developing and marketing disk drive technology.

  • First Sata Drive Is Introduced.

    Western Digital introduces the first 10,000-rpm SATA hard drive, the 37GB Raptor, which is designed for the enterprise, but which gamers quickly learn is a hot desktop performer in dual-drive RAID setups

  • First 2.5In Hard Drive Is Designed For A Laptop

    Seagate's Momentus 5400.3 notebook hard drive is the first 2.5-inch model to use perpendicular magnetic recording, which boosts its capacity up to 160GB.

  • First 750GB Hard Drive

    First 750 GB hard drive. Becomes the largest hard drive to date.

  • First 1TB HardDrive

    First 1 terabyte is introduced by Hitachi GST 1TB= 1000GB

  • 1.5TB Hard Drive Introduced

    First 1.5TB hard drive is introduced by Seagate

  • First 2TB Hard Drive Introduced

    First 2TB hard drive is introduced by Western Digital.

  • First 3TB Hard Drive

    Firsth 3TB hard drvie is introduced by Seagate and Western Digital.

  • First Advanced Format Hard Drive

    First Hard Drive Manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096 bytes a block ("4K") instead of 512 bytes a block

  • First 4TB Hard Drive

    First 4TB hard drive by Seagate.

  • 5TB Hard Drive Start To Ship

    Seagate announces that it will ship hard disk drives with capacities up to 5 TB using shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a method where tracks are written to partially overlap each other. The read head, being smaller, can still read the overlapped tracks

  • 8TB Hard Drives Start To Ship

    Seagate ships worlds first 8TB hard drive. That is 8 THOUSAND GIGABYTES!!!