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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
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.
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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 ProFile (codenamed Pippin [6]) is the first hard disk drive produced by Apple Computer, initially for use with the Apple III. [1] The original model had a formatted capacity of 5 MB and connected to a special interface card that plugged into an Apple III slot.
A disk drive is a device implementing such a storage mechanism. Notable types are hard disk drives (HDD), containing one or more non-removable rigid platters; the floppy disk drive (FDD) and its removable floppy disk; and various optical disc drives (ODD) and associated optical disc media.
The disk cartridge was a direct evolution from the disk pack drive, or the early hard drive. As the storage density improved, even a single platter would provide a useful amount of data storage space, with the benefit being easier to handle than a removable disk pack. An example of a cartridge drive is the IBM 2310, [2] used on the IBM 1130.
SyQuest Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYQT) [1] was an early entrant into the hard disk drive market for personal computers.The company was founded on January 27, 1982 [2] by Syed Iftikar who had been a founder of Seagate, [3] along with Ben Alaimo, Bill Krajewski, Anil Nigam and George Toldi. [4]