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  2. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    History of hard disk drives. Historical lowest retail price of computer memory and storage. In 1953, IBM recognized the immediate application for what it termed a "Random Access File" having high capacity and rapid random access at a relatively low cost. [1] After considering technologies such as wire matrices, rod arrays, drums, drum arrays ...

  3. Zettabyte Era - Wikipedia

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    The Zettabyte Era or Zettabyte Zone [1] is a period of human and computer science history that started in the mid-2010s. The precise starting date depends on whether it is defined as when the global IP traffic first exceeded one zettabyte, which happened in 2016, or when the amount of digital data in the world first exceeded a zettabyte, which happened in 2012.

  4. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    4.5 × 10 16 bits (5.625 petabytes) – estimated hard drive space in Google's server farm as of 2004 [citation needed] 2 56: 72,057,594,037,927,936 bits (8 pebibytes) 10 petabytes (10 16 bytes) – estimated approximate size of the Library of Congress's collection, including non-book materials, as of 2005. [8]

  5. Magnetic-tape data storage - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic-tape data storage is a system for storing digital information on magnetic tape using digital recording. Tape was an important medium for primary data storage in early computers, typically using large open reels of 7-track, later 9-track tape. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes, such as the widely ...

  6. Titan (supercomputer) - Wikipedia

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    Titan or OLCF-3 was a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects. Titan was an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs). Titan was the first such hybrid to perform ...

  7. Big data - Wikipedia

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    Hard disk drives were 2.5 GB in 1991 so the definition of big data continuously evolves. Teradata installed the first petabyte class RDBMS based system in 2007. As of 2017, there are a few dozen petabyte class Teradata relational databases installed, the largest of which exceeds 50 PB. Systems up until 2008 were 100% structured relational data.