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2. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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   2011 - Samsung announces 1 TB of capacity per 3.5 inch hard drive platter. [60] 2012 – TDK demonstrates 2 TB on a single 3.5-inch platter [61] 2012 – WDC acquires HGST operating it as a wholly owned subsidiary. WDC then provides rights to Toshiba, [62] allowing it to re-enter the 3.5-inch desktop hard disk drive market. [63]

3. SATA - Wikipedia

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   A 3.5-inch Serial ATA hard disk drive A 2.5-inch Serial ATA solid-state drive. SATA was announced in 2000 [4] [5] in order to provide several advantages over the earlier PATA interface such as reduced cable size and cost (seven conductors instead of 40 or 80), native hot swapping, faster data transfer through higher signaling rates, and more efficient transfer through an (optional) I/O queuing ...

4. HGST - Wikipedia

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   HGST, Inc. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services. It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required ...

5. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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   For example, a typical 1 TB hard disk with 512-byte sectors provides additional capacity of about 93 GB for the ECC data. [ 65 ] In the newest drives, as of 2009 [update] , [ 66 ] low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) were supplanting Reed–Solomon; LDPC codes enable performance close to the Shannon limit and thus provide the highest storage ...

6. Western Digital - Wikipedia

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   Western Digital said that the new drives are 35 percent faster than the previous generation. On September 12, 2008, Western Digital shipped a 500 GB 2.5-inch (64 mm) notebook hard drive which is part of their Scorpio Blue series of notebook hard drives. On January 27, 2009, Western Digital shipped the first 2 TB internal hard disk drive. [17]

7. List of defunct hard disk manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions. None of the first several entrants (including IBM, who invented the HDD) continue in the industry today.

8. 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.

9. List of computer hardware manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Toggle Hard disk drives (HDDs) subsection. 6.1 Internal. 6.2 External. 7 Drive controller and RAID cards. 8 Solid-state drives (SSDs) 9 Optical disc drives (ODDs) 10 ...