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The acquisition was a success story for Maxtor, and the subsidiary had grown to generate $80 million in sales by 1992. [6] That year, Maxtor sold off Storage Dimensions to private investors. [6] In 1990, Maxtor entered the mass market with its purchase of the assets (but not the liabilities) of bankrupt MiniScribe in Longmont, Colorado. [7]
Later 1.8-inch drives were updated with a micro-SATA connector and up to 320GB of storage (Toshiba MK3233GSG). The 1.8-inch form factor was eventually phased out as SSDs became cheaper and more compact. [38] There was an attempt to standardize this format as SFF-8123, but it was cancelled in 2005. [39]
In 1989, a 40 MB hard drive cost $1200, or $30/MB. And in 2018, 4 Tb drives sold for $75, or 1.9¢/GB, an improvement of 1.5 million since 1989 and 520 million since the RAMAC. This is without adjusting for inflation, which increased prices nine-fold from 1956 to 2018.
As of 2018, HDDs were forecast to reach 100 TB capacities around 2025, [39] but as of 2019, the expected pace of improvement was pared back to 50 TB by 2026. [40] Smaller form factors, 1.8-inches and below, were discontinued around 2010. The cost of solid-state storage (NAND), represented by Moore's law, is improving faster than HDDs.
Seagate offers internal and external Firecuda SSDs and HDDs with SATA, NVMe, or USB-C interface with storage capacity between 250 GB – 16 TB. Ironwolf – NAS device storage drives, with HDD storage capacities of 1–20 TB, [81] regular or helium drive type, SATA interface, and up to 260 MB/s. Ironwolf SSDs have capacities of 240 GB – 4 TB ...
A fall from grace. Founded in 1978, The Container Store went public on Nov. 1, 2013, pricing its initial public offering at $525 per share. By the close of trading that day, shares closed at $543.
By 2010, the maximum available storage capacity for the devices had reached upwards of 128 GB. [23] USB 3.0 was slow to appear in laptops. Through 2010, the majority of laptop models still contained only USB 2.0. [22] In January 2013, tech company Kingston, released a flash drive with 1 TB of storage. [24]
In March 2011, Western Digital agreed to acquire parts of the storage unit of Hitachi, HGST, for about $4.3 billion of which $3.5 billion was paid in cash and the rest with 25 million shares of Western Digital. [28] Western Digital "Red" 4 TB, a NAS-optimized 3.5-inch SATA HDD