Much of your digital life resides on the "cloud," spinning disk drives somewhere in data centers owned by Facebook, Amazon, Google and others. Despite advances in solid state media drives that have ...

• 1977 - IBM launched a project to develop a 3380 Direct Access Storage Device disk drive for computer storage. • 1980 - IBM introduces "thin film" head technology, which enables the 3380 Direct ...

At the 2021 SNIA Storage Developers Conference (SDC) there were presentations on many different storage technologies, interfaces, system architectures, computational storage and other topics. This ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet—and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; it ...

It's difficult to believe how far technology has come since the mid-1950s. At a time when "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" were hit shows with nightly audiences, IBM was busy developing one of the ...

When Computerworld was founded in 1967, a 1-megabyte hard drive would have set you back by $1 million. Today, that same megabyte of capacity on a hard disk drive (HDD) costs about two cents. Through ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives... one day.

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...