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2. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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   Also in 1961, Bryant Computer Products introduced its 4000 series disk drives. These massive units stood 52 inches (1.3 m) tall, 70 inches (1.8 m) long, and 70 inches (1.8 m) wide, and had up to 26 platters, each 39 inches (0.99 m) in diameter, rotating at up to 1,200 rpm. Access times were from 50 to 205 milliseconds (ms). The drive's total ...

3. USB flash drive - Wikipedia

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   In January 2013, tech company Kingston, released a flash drive with 1 TB of storage. [24] The first USB 3.1 type-C flash drives, with read/write speeds of around 530 MB/s, were announced in March 2015. [25] By July 2016, flash drives with 8 to 256 GB capacity were sold more frequently than those with capacities between 512 GB and 1 TB.

4. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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   Software reports hard disk drive or memory capacity in different forms using either decimal or binary prefixes. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems uses the binary convention when reporting storage capacity, so an HDD offered by its manufacturer as a 1 TB drive is reported by these operating systems as a 931 GB HDD.

5. Units of information - Wikipedia

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   1 GB: 114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s; 16 GB: DDR5 DRAM laptop memory under $40 (as of early 2024) 32/64/128 GB: Three common sizes of USB flash drives; 1 TB: The size of a $30 hard disk (as of early 2024) 6 TB: The size of a $100 hard disk (as of early 2022)

6. Solid-state drive - Wikipedia

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   For general computer use, the 2.5-inch form factor (typically found in laptops and used for most SATA SSDs) is the most popular, in three thicknesses [98] (7.0mm, 9.5mm, 14.8 or 15.0mm; with 12.0mm also available for some models). For desktop computers with 3.5-inch hard disk drive slots, a simple adapter plate can be used to make such a drive fit.

7. RDX (disk) - Wikipedia

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   RDX is a disk-based removable storage format intended as a replacement of tape storage. RDX removable disk technology consists of portable disk cartridges and an RDX dock. RDX cartridges are shock-proof 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drives and are advertised to sustain a 1 meter (39 in) drop onto a concrete floor and to offer an archival ...