COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS A HARD DRIVE
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70 and 90’s
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60 and 70’s
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50 and 70’s
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70 and 80’s
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Detailed explanation-1: -A 5 or 20 megabyte hard disk capacity was considered large in early 70 and 80’s. There are several different types of interface for hard drives. The most common is the IDE or SATA interface, which is found on most home desktop PC’s. For high-end applications and business the SCSI or SAS interface is very popular.
Detailed explanation-2: -1980s, the transition to the PC era But it was clear that smaller Winchester storage systems were eclipsing large platter hard drives. In the 1980s 8-inch drives used with some mid-range systems increased from a low of about 30MB in 1980, to a top-of-the-line 3GB in 1989.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hard Disk: Historical Significance With time, IBM continued decreasing the size of the disks and the platters. For instance, in 1979, IBM’s 3370 used seven 14-inch platters to store 571MB, the first drive to use thin-film heads.
Detailed explanation-4: -127 GB / 128 GB / 137 GB maximum hard drive capacity in Windows 98.
Detailed explanation-5: -Desktop and server drives typically were based on the 3.5” form factor, while laptop drives were smaller (2.5”).