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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
Reynold B. Johnson (July 16, 1906 – September 15, 1998) was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the hard disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment and the videocassette tape.
Inventors of the HDD; HDD assets briefly spun off to AdStar between 1992 and 1995: Imprimis (CDC) United States: 1975: 1989: Acquired by Seagate Technology: Joint venture between Control Data and CII-Honeywell-Bull; Internally known as Magnetic Peripherals, Inc: Information Storage Systems: United States: 1969: 1973
[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 technologies. [3] The basic mechanical arrangement of hard disk drives has not changed since the IBM 1301. Disk drive performance and characteristics are ...
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.
Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry. [ 2 ] Personal history
Reynold B. Johnson (1906–1998), U.S. – Hard disk drive; Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884), Germany – Jolly balance; Scott A. Jones (born 1960), U.S. – created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine; Tom Parry Jones (1935–2013), UK – first electronic Breathalyzer
A 44 MB, 5.25-inch full-height MiniScribe hard disk, shown with a more recent 2 GB CompactFlash memory card for size comparison. The company was started by Terry Johnson, who had a 20-year career in the hard drive business at such companies as IBM, Memorex and Storage Technology Corporation.