I hadn't seen it mentioned before so I was surprised when looking at the new retina ipad mini on the apple store to see it goes up to 128 GB of storage. Not too long ago that would have been a lot for a desktop.
Huh? there has been well more than 128GB of *storage* for desktop computers for many many years.
How many years are there in a "many"?
- 2002 – 137 GB addressing space barrier broken
- 2003 – Serial ATA introduced
- 2003 – IBM sells disk drive division to Hitachi
- 2004 – MK2001MTN first 0.85 inch drive released by Toshiba with capacity of 2 gigabytes[16]
- 2005 – First 500 GB hard drive shipping (Hitachi GST)
- 2005 – Serial ATA 3Gbit/s standardized
- 2005 – Seagate introduces Tunnel MagnetoResistive Read Sensor (TMR) and Thermal Spacing Control
- 2005 – Introduction of faster SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
- 2005 – First perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) HDD shipped: Toshiba 1.8-inch 40/80 GB[18]
- 2006 – First 750 GB hard drive (Seagate)
- 2006 – First 200 GB 2.5" hard drive utilizing perpendicular recording (Toshiba)
- 2006 – Fujitsu develops heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that could one day achieve one terabit per square inch densities.[19]
- 2007 – First 1 terabyte[20] hard drive[21] (Hitachi GST)
- 2008 – First 1.5 terabyte[20] hard drive[22] (Seagate)
- 2009 – First 2.0 terabyte hard drive[23] (Western Digital)
- 2010 – First 3.0 terabyte hard drive[24][25] (Seagate, Western Digital)
- 2010 – First Hard Drive Manufactured by using the Advanced Format of 4,096 bytes a block ("4K") instead of 512 bytes a block[26]
- 2011 – First 4.0 terabyte hard drive[27] (Seagate)
- 2012 - Western Digital announces the first 2.5-inch, 5mm thick drive, and the first 2.5-inch, 7mm thick drive with two platters.[28](Western Digital)
- 2012 - HGST announces helium-filled hard disk drives, promising cooler operation and the ability to increase the maximum number of platters from five to seven in the 3.5" form factor.[29] (Hitachi GST)
- 2012 - TDK demonstrates 2 TB on a single 3.5-inch platter [30]
- 2013 - Seagate announces that it will ship hard disk drives with capacities up to 5 TB using shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a method where tracks are written to partially overlap each other. The read head, being smaller, can still read the overlapped tracks.[31]
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