USB Flashdrive

By MWeaver

  • IBM 9345 hard disk drive

    a. 1990
    b.IBM 9345 hard disk drive
    c.Reynold B. Johnson
    d. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads. Magneto-resistive heads gave the 9345 an advantage over its competitors, as the bits could be stored more densely.

  • SSD Module

    a. 1992
    b. SSD Module
    c.Fujio Matsuoka
    d. module which used non-volatile memory chips to replace the spinning disks of a hard disk drive. SanDisk recognized that handheld devices and computers were becoming lighter and smaller, and that flash memory, as was used in the SSD module, offered powerful advantages over hard disks.

  • Compact Flash

    a. 1994
    b. Compact Flash
    c. Eli Harari
    d.the preferred memory storage option in many consumer as well as professional electronic devices. It was highly popular in digital still and video cameras, and although its dimensions were slightly larger than some other memory card formats, its ruggedness and high capacity made it a preferred choice.

  • Iomega Zip Disk

    a. 1994
    b. Iomega Zip Disk
    c. inventor (if known)
    d. The initial Zip system allowed 100MB to be stored on a cartridge roughly the size of a 3 ½ inch floppy disk. Later versions increased the capacity of a single disk from 100MB to 2GB. Like hard disks but unlike other floppies, ZIP drives used a non-contact read/write head that “flew” above the surface. Reliability problems and low-cost CDs eventually made ZIP disks obsolete.

  • USB Flashdrive

    a. 1999
    b. USB Flashdrive
    c. Dov Moran, Amir Ban
    d. It is smaller, faster, more durable and has more capacity than floppy disks or CDs2. It allowed for technology to advance even further past portable storage devices to even greater internal memory for most devices.