Comments on: Amazing Facts and Figures About the Evolution of Hard Disk Drives

By: Joe Postove

Joe Postove — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:40:00 +0000

My first pc in 1999 had 9 gigs of hard drive space.

My first reaction was “my God, that will last forever”! About that time, file sharing became a thing, and I filled up that drive in less than a year.

Then I installed a 100 gig drive (around 2001) and thought I was set for life.

Now my two terabyte drive is half filled.

Yowsaw!

By: jorge

jorge — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:39:49 +0000

The most interesting fact that this wonderful article forgot….

We became HOARDERS of data.

I mean “Really!” , most of our hard drives contain clutter, old junk and files we don’t even remember we had. I just went through mine and found some interesting memories, old music, unknown photos, letters….
And at work, it is the same old story… Lots of old and historical data that could be archived somewhere, maybe using the cheapest drives.
But tapes (floppy) are more expensive than hard drives. And people became lazy.

So we story everything online.

Do we need that much data, really?

By: Tobor

Tobor — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:26:35 +0000

looking fwd to my 1st Peta SSD.
Thaanx for a great article………..

By: Niklas Westerholm

Niklas Westerholm — Mon, 02 May 2016 06:48:26 +0000

It would be helpful if you could post some information on the evolution of disk speed I/O since the 1960’s ? As I understand it the disk speed have increased 4,5x but I cant find any sources that clarifies that….

By: BrittonBurton

BrittonBurton — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:40:36 +0000

Great Article, really puts things in perspective.