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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. Hard disk drive - Wikipedia

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   In development. Historical. v. t. e. A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk[ a ] is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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   A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the spinning disk. The three most popular (and commercially ...

5. History of IBM magnetic disk drives - Wikipedia

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   History of IBM magnetic disk drives. IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. [1][2] Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM and as such IBM's employees were responsible for many of the innovations in these products and their ...

6. Office Depot - Wikipedia

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   officedepot.com. Office Depot, Inc. is an American office supply retailer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company operates 1,400 retail stores in the United States under the Office Depot and OfficeMax brands, [4] as well as e-commerce sites and a business-to-business sales organization. The company has combined annual sales of ...

7. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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   5.75 in × 3.25 in × 8 in (146.1 mm × 82.55 mm × 203 mm). This smaller form factor, first used in an HDD by Seagate in 1980, was the same size as full-height 51⁄4 -inch-diameter (130 mm) FDD, 3.25-inches high. This is twice as high as "half height"; i.e., 1.63 in (41.4 mm). Most desktop models of drives for optical 120 mm disks (DVD, CD ...