During the course of our discussion we will be taking a very careful look at the complete history of data storage. We are going to try and over all of the most popular forms of technology that have been used by people to serve this people, in popular computing. There might be younger people who are unaware of some of these methods, but that is why they should read further.
The first forms of computer data were stored through the use of what was then called density disks. These became commonly referred to as floppies. The first ever floppies were over eight inches in size and they hit the very early computer scene of the early seventies. By the time that the late eighties rolled around this form of storage was very popular even though it held less than 80kb.
The first type of floppy disk that became very popular on the home computing scene was the one that had the very small size of five and quarter inches. These floppies typically had to be used to not only store but also run whatever operating system a person choose. This was because the technology utilized in hard drives was still for too expensive for most consumers to reach at this time in the 1980's.
The third, and ultimately final, type of floppy disc that became popular was a bit smaller than the others. It was only 3 and 1/4 inches in size but it could hold up to one and a half megabytes! Hard drives were naturally much more affordable and therefore became common place for storing and running software that had been installed onto a computer.
It is very important to remember that hard drives from over a decade ago were a lot more crude in nature than what we have available to us today. A hard drive from the mid to late nineties that was 4 gigs in size, was considered to be quite an acceptable sized hard drives. Cd's made optical discs a popular form of storage and they beat out floppies for the storage of software.
Today, hard drives are capable of storing thousands of gigabytes as a time and come in external, "plug and play" models. The external hard drive kind of evolved into a new form of storage in a class all of it's own. We are of course talking about the very tiny flash drives that are seen so commonly hanging from the key chains of college students the entire world over.
Today, optical disc technology for the home is so common, that we can read and write on all popular forms of optical style media. People very commonly store data to not only Cd's, but to DVDs and Blu-ray disc's as well. A blu-ray disc can store up to fifty gigabytes on one dual layer disc. Web networks often utilize large servers as a way of storing files that they consider to be important.
By now, you should have a good idea of how very rich the history of data storage is. The next time you are holding a blu-ray disc that has fifty gigabytes of data stored on it, consider that the earliest density style disc's couldn't even hold a tenth of a single megabyte.
The first forms of computer data were stored through the use of what was then called density disks. These became commonly referred to as floppies. The first ever floppies were over eight inches in size and they hit the very early computer scene of the early seventies. By the time that the late eighties rolled around this form of storage was very popular even though it held less than 80kb.
The first type of floppy disk that became very popular on the home computing scene was the one that had the very small size of five and quarter inches. These floppies typically had to be used to not only store but also run whatever operating system a person choose. This was because the technology utilized in hard drives was still for too expensive for most consumers to reach at this time in the 1980's.
The third, and ultimately final, type of floppy disc that became popular was a bit smaller than the others. It was only 3 and 1/4 inches in size but it could hold up to one and a half megabytes! Hard drives were naturally much more affordable and therefore became common place for storing and running software that had been installed onto a computer.
It is very important to remember that hard drives from over a decade ago were a lot more crude in nature than what we have available to us today. A hard drive from the mid to late nineties that was 4 gigs in size, was considered to be quite an acceptable sized hard drives. Cd's made optical discs a popular form of storage and they beat out floppies for the storage of software.
Today, hard drives are capable of storing thousands of gigabytes as a time and come in external, "plug and play" models. The external hard drive kind of evolved into a new form of storage in a class all of it's own. We are of course talking about the very tiny flash drives that are seen so commonly hanging from the key chains of college students the entire world over.
Today, optical disc technology for the home is so common, that we can read and write on all popular forms of optical style media. People very commonly store data to not only Cd's, but to DVDs and Blu-ray disc's as well. A blu-ray disc can store up to fifty gigabytes on one dual layer disc. Web networks often utilize large servers as a way of storing files that they consider to be important.
By now, you should have a good idea of how very rich the history of data storage is. The next time you are holding a blu-ray disc that has fifty gigabytes of data stored on it, consider that the earliest density style disc's couldn't even hold a tenth of a single megabyte.
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