September 2006 marked the 50th Anniversary of disk space. When IBM's first hard disk on 13 Delivered September 1956, few could it have an impact on our daily lives can imagine. The RAMAC (also known as "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control") was the size of two refrigerators and weighed a ton. It required a separate compressor to protect the heads had large pizza platter and was able to save a proud 5Megabytes of data. Now you can anything with a mere Pocket Drive! What's more - the RAMAC was available for £ 18,500, the equivalent of EUR 134,500 to lease in pounds today.
25 years later, the first hard drive for personal computer was invented. With the MFM encoding method has a 40 MB capacity and 625 kb / s data transfer rate. A later version of the ST506 interface is terminated, the RLL encoding method, allowing for increased storage capacity and processingSpeed.
IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the introduction of the first personal computer - IBM 5150th At a price of £ 830 for only 5150 had 16K memory just enough for a small amount of e-mails. It is hard to imagine that was not adequately considered the late 1980's 100 MB of disk space. In today's world this would be totally inadequate, barely enough to install the operating system mentioned above, not on a large application such as MicrosoftOffice.
Could not do when on the limits of early PC, Tom Standage, The Economist magazine asked business editor, says: "It's hard to imagine how people do with computers these days, because by today's standards this is really nothing used. "
As a result of these breakthroughs, the industry of several thousand drives per year in the 1950s rose to over 260 million drives per year in 2003. During this time, the cost of magnetic disks as storage mediadecreased from £ 1088 per megabyte in the 1960s to the present 0.03 pence.
The future is bright
Currently, the standard 3.5-inch desktop hard drive can store up to 750 gigabytes (GB) in the data. But will put drives into a smaller, more powerful and less expensive. According to Bill Healy, an employee at Hitachi drives with hundreds of gigabytes is small enough to wear as jewelry. "We will work with each album and song you've ever bought,every picture you've ever taken, every tax record. "
After having five disks in your household is increasingly commonplace: PCs, laptops, gaming consoles, VCR, TiVo ®, iPods ® - to name but a few. Experts believe that one day households up to 15 disks, some of which will appear in your TV, cell phone or car.
In fact, the industry is expected to deliver as many drives in the next five years as in the past 50 years. Industry anaylstssuch as Gartner, IDC and TrendFOCUS believe that the global HDD market continues to experience impressive unit and revenue growth.
Take the good with the bad
As new devices come onto the market, and the amount of stored data increases the potential for data loss is greater than ever before. No matter how strict your back-up policy, or how much you invest in the privacy occur somewhere along the line of data loss. With 20 years of experience, Ontrack Data Recovery ™has indeed seen its fair share of data disasters. From the dog who ate a man on the Memory Stick - the user so angry, frustrated, he shot his laptop with a gun! Not to mention the business woman who spilled coffee on her laptop and the father who accidentally deleted his child's baby-name pictures.
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