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The Macintosh can only support one external drive, limiting the number of floppy disks mounted at once to two, but both Apple and third party manufacturers developed external hard drives that connected to the Mac's floppy disk port, which had pass-through ports to accommodate daisy-chaining the external disk drive. Apple's Hard Disk 20 can ...
The Macintosh Hard Disk 20 is the first hard drive developed by Apple Computer specifically for use with the Macintosh 512K. Introduced on September 17, 1985, it was part of Apple's solution toward completing the Macintosh Office (a suite of integrated business hardware & software) announced in January 1985.
400K Drive (internal) Macintosh External Disk Drive (400K) UniDisk; DuoDisk; UniDisk 3.5 ; Macintosh 800K External Drive; Disk 5.25; Apple 3.5 Drive; Apple SuperDrive; Macintosh HDI-20 External 1.4MB Drive
The 20SC originally contained a half height 5.25" Seagate ST-225N 20MB SCSI hard drive, but was later manufactured with a full-height 3.5" MiniScribe 8425SA 20MB SCSI hard drive. The latter drive was the same size as the drive inside the Macintosh Hard Disk 20, but 10 to 15 MB over what had previously been offered by Apple for the II family.
2009 - Western Digital is the first to offer a 1 TB hard drive in a 2.5 inch form factor. [57] 2009 – Western Digital ships first HDD with dual stage piezoelectric actuator [58] 2010 – First hard drive manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096‑byte sectors instead of 512‑byte sectors. [59]: Overview
In the 1964 removable disk media was introduced by the IBM 2310 disk drive with its 2315 cartridge used in IBM 1800 and IBM 1130 computers. [7] Magnetic disk media is today not removable; however disk devices and media such as optical disc drives and optical discs are available both as internal storage and external storage. [8]
Two 2.5" external USB hard drives Seagate Hard Drive with a controller board to convert SATA to USB, FireWire, and eSATA Current external hard disk drives typically connect via USB-C; earlier models use USB-B (sometimes with using of a pair of ports for better bandwidth) or (rarely) eSATA connection. Variants using USB 2.0 interface generally ...
Examples of removable media that are standalone plug-and-play devices that carry their own reader hardwares include: USB flash drives [5] Portable storage devices. Dedicated external solid-state drives (SSD) Enclosured mass storage drives, i.e. modified hard disk drives (HDD)/internal SSDs; Peripheral devices that have integrated data storage ...