15 Years Of Hard Drive History: Capacities Outran Performance

By Patrick Schmid
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Patrick Schmid
3 Comments Comment from the forums
  • There is a typo in the article:

    Quantum's Fireball was available about five years after the 40 GB Maxtor drive discussed above,

    It should be 40MB, obviously
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  • badcat
    "And Samsung, finally, may have a decent advantage in the future with a possible hybrid hard drive; it is the only firm in this quartet that manufactures both magnetic and Flash storage." WRONG! This technology existed in enterprise level hard disks for some time now.
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  • i am still looking a 40Mb hard disk for my machine in 386dx
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