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2006 - SSD awareness flares into notebooks
Global shipments of Hard Disk Drives rose
15.5% in 2006 to 434 million units according to iSuppli
the 2006
Solid State Disks Buyers Guide
2006, December week 1 -
Toshiba Launches 100G 1.8" HDD
2006, December week
2 - More Sites Use iSCSI than Fibre Channel SAN
2006, December week
3-4 - Expansion Box Extends Tape Library to 10 Petabytes
2006, November week 1 -
Kanguru Fingerprints USB Flash
2006, November week
2 - Msystems' Shareholders Vote Yes to SanDisk
2006, November week
3-4 - ILM? - What ILM? - Say Thousands of IT Managers
2006, October week 1 -
Tandberg Launches RDX QuikStor Disk Backup
2006, October week 2
- Dell Says No - to More Tape Libraries
2006, October week 3
- AMCC Ships Fastest RAID 6 SATA II RAID Controller
2006, October week 4
- Plextor Ships 10X DVD+R
2006,
September week 1 - DRAM Prices Rising - Says iSuppli
2006, September week
2 - SiliconSystems Announces Investment by Samsung
2006, September week
3 - InfiniBand Users May be Lonesome Tonight
2006, September week
4 - Intel Launches New Storage Processors
2006,
August week 1 - Cornice Announces Thinnest 1" 12GB Hard Drive
2006, August week 2
- Nimbus Unveils Free iSCSI Target Software for Windows
2006, August week 3
- Intel will Bundle Diskeeper with Motherboards
2006, August week 4
- Tandberg Acquires Exabyte
2006,
July week 1 - Seagate Drives in Himalayan Trek
2006, July week 2 -
Seagate and Adaptec Offer SAS / SATA RAID Kit
2006, July week 3 -
New SSD Systems Scale to Tens of Terabytes
2006, July week 4 -
Samsung Prepares for SSD-Aware PC Market
2006,
June week 1 - Rambus Notches Up 500th Patent
2006, June week 2 -
Seagate Enters the Online Storage Market
2006, June week 3 -
EqualLogic Overtakes EMC in iSCSI Market Share
2006, June week 4 -
Toshiba Buying Into Next Generation DVD Market
2006,
May week 1 - Will Phone Hard Drives Kill the iPod?
2006, May week 2 -
Cornice Aims to be #1 HDD Supplier in Phone Market
2006, May week 3 -
Fujifilm will Soon Ship 25G Blu-ray Disks
2006, May week 4 -
Fujitsu Launches Tape / Disk Degausser
2006, April week 1 -
Cirrus Offers NAS on a Chip
2006, April week 2 -
iSuppli Ranks Top HDD OEMs
2006, April week 3 -
Solid Access unveils rackmount SSD array prices online
2006, April week 4 -
McNealy Gives Up the CEO Hot Seat at Sun
2006, March week 1 -
Samsung Shows World's First Hard Disk Phone
2006, March week 2 -
Amazon Enters the Online Storage Services Market
2006, March week 3 -
Serial Attached SCSI - is it worth the wait?
2006, March week 4 -
iVivity Ships Wire Speed 10Gbps iSCSI HBA
2006,
February week 1 - Nimbus and Chelsio Aim for Fastest iSCSI Storage
2006, February week
2 - Samsung Announces Fastest GDDR4
2006, February week
3 - Hitachi Opens New Hard Disk Mega Factory
2006, February week
4 - QLogic is Fibre Channel HBA Market Leader
2006, January week 1 -
New HDD Lets Users View Head Seeks
2006, January week 2
- World's first SSD based Windows notebooks
2006, January week 3
- Samsung memory powers "single use" cameras
2006, January week 4
- EMC Announces Petabyte Disk Storage Array
2005 - Samsung declares SSDs strategic market
HDD industry industry shipped 380 million disk drives in 2005
Squeak! - the
Top 10 Storage Software Companies - 2005
Squeak! - the
Fastest Growing Storage Companies in 2005
2005 December week 1 -
Storage Product Category of the Year 2005
2005
December 2 - Declining DRAM Market Fuels Switch to Flash
2005 December 3-4 -
Pioneer Launched Blu-ray Drives and Fusion-io founded.
2005 November week 1 -
ProStor Unveils New Backup Technology - RDX
2005 November week 2
- Sony's Hard Disk Focuses on Camera Flash Slots
2005 November week 3
- TMS Demonstrates Native InfiniBand Solid State Disk
2005 November week 4
- Asigra Says "No" to Outmoded Veritas Costs
2005, October week 1 -
Imation Packs Hard Drive into LTO
2005, October week
2 - Nexsan says - the AutoMAID is not for turning
2005, October week
3 - McDATA Surpasses 20,000 Director Milestone
2005, October week
4 - Intel Launches Network Storage Systems
2005, September week 1
- iTunes Service Starts on Cellphones
2005, September week
2 - World's First Dual Interface Flash SSD
2005, September week
3 - a different kind of flash SSD endurance story
2005, September week
4 - Microsoft Gets into Disk to Disk Backup
2005, August week 1 -
LSI Logic Ships Production 4Gb/s Fibre Channel
2005, August week 2
- DDR2 Memory Volumes Overtake DDR1
2005, August week 3
- Seagate Ships SATA Drives for D2d Market
2005, August week 4
- Ramtron Chip Aims at Car Crash Recorders
2005,
July week 1 - Hard Drives Target the Bedroom
2005, July week 2 -
Disk Purge Comes to Linux
2005, July week 3-4
- EMC Announces World's Largest Storage Array
2005, June week 1 - Sun
Acquires StorageTek
2005, June week 2 -
DISUK Launches SafeTape
2005, June week 3 -
Mellanox Ships 60Gb/s InfiniBand
2005, June week 4 -
FCIA Supports SATA Tunneling
2005, May week 1 -
Seagate and Cornice Reach Partial Settlement
2005, May week 2 -
LeWiz is the Fastest TCP/IP Offload HBA
2005, May week 3 -
M-Systems Has Biggest Fastest Flash Drive
2005, May week 4 -
Funding for 300GB Holo Drive Reaches $61M
2005,
April week 1 - World's 1st performance guarantees for SSDs
2005, April week 2 -
emBoot announces the death of the iSCSI HBA
2005, April week 3 -
SmartDisk Introduces Portable DVR
2005, April week 4 -
Topio Secures $8 million Round of Funding
2005,
March week 1 - Curtis SSD speeds up telco's 30 million user database
2005, March week 2 -
Fujitsu Delivers Production Serial SCSI Hard Drives
2005, March week 3 -
Overland Claims to be #1 in Disk to Disk Backup
2005, March week 4 -
New World Record Set for iSCSI Throughput
2005, February week 1 -
BiTMICRO is #1 Recognized Solid-State Disks Brand
2005, February week
2 - HP Ousts Fiorina
2005, February week
3 - ADTX is #1 in ATA/SATA Storage in Japan
2005, February week
4 - Seagate Ships 6GB 1" Hard Drive
2005, January week 1 -
OPTWARE's New HVD Signals Sayonara to DVDs
2005, January week
2 - Apple Sold 4.5 million iPods in First Quarter
2005, January week
3 - Maxell Announces DVD that will Endure
2005, January week
4 - Incipient, Inc., Secures $20M Series C Funding
2004 - StorageSearch.com asks
what do SSD buyers want?
the
Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - 2004
the Top 10
Storage Software Companies - 2004
the Fastest
Growing STORAGE companies in 2004
the Rising Stars of
Storage and the Dogs which Failed to Bark in 2004
the State of iSCSI in 2004 -
products fail to match hype
2004 December week 1 -
Worldwide SAN Market Flat
2004 December week 2
- Hitachi's 1 Inch Hard Drive is 5
2004 December weeks
3 - 4 - VERITAS Merges with Symantec
2004
November week 1 - FRAM server is unfazed by power dropouts
2004 November week 2
- SiliconDrive SSDs get 5 year warranty
2004 November week 3
- Tabernus Releases DOD Certified Disk Purge
2004 November week 4
- Megabyte's Holiday Adventures (cartoon)
2004, October week 1 -
CentricStor Backs Up 8.6TB / Hour to SATA
2004, October week
2 - Sun Microsystems to Resell Solid State Disks
2004, October week
3 - Kashya Clusters Windows Over 2,000 miles
2004, October week
4 - BiTMICRO Ships 1st Ultra320 SCSI Flash SSD
2004, September week 1
- iSCSI Gets Solid State Disk Targets
2004, September week
2 - SATA-IO Organization Formed
2004, September week
3 - Infineon Pays $160 million Fine to DoJ
2004, September week
4 - Iomega Ships 16x Double-Layer DVD Drives
2004,
August weeks 1 - 2 - Toshiba Launches 60G 1.8" Drives
2004, August week 3
- Vitesse Ships 8Gbps Capable Fibre Channel Chips
2004, August week 4
- LSI Logic Demos 1st SATA II Controller
2004,
July week 1 - Cornice Slammed by Another Disk Patent Suit
2004, July week 2 -
Adaptec to Acquire Snap Appliance
2004, July week 3 -
Adtron Introduces First SATA Flash SSD
2004, July week 4 -
DiskOnKey Unlocks 2GB
2004, June week 1 -
LightSand Demos 1,000 km (600 miles) SAN Mirroring
2004, June week 2 -
Elpida Invests $4 Billion in Memory Fab
2004, June week 3 -
iSCSI Company Xiran Closes Down
2004, June week 4 -
The World's Largest DRAM Production Facility
2004, May week 1 -
Imation Launches Terabyte-Class Magnetic Tape Fab
2004, May week 2 -
Gartner Says More than 25% of Critical Data is Flawed
2004, May week 3 -
BiTMICRO Introduces PMC Flash Disk
2004, May week 4 -
Cybernetics Tape Library Packs 15TB Backup into 4U
2004,
April week 1 - Sun Licenses NAS Technology from Procom
2004, April week 2 -
ActionFront Sets New Milestone for Data Recovery
2004, April week 3 -
Intel Cranks Up SATA Speed to 3Gbps
2004, April week 4 -
Toshiba Ships 100GB 2.5" Hard Disks
article:- Megabyte's
Storage Market Review Q1 2004
2004, March week 1 -
Broadcom Does NAS on a Chip
2004, March week 2 -
Hitachi announces 400GB hard drive
2004, March week 3 -
BiTMICRO Unveils 16TB Solid State SAN Accelerator
2004, March week 4 -
DiskOnChip Used in Smartphones Throughout China
2004, February week 1 -
Cornice Secures $51 Million In Venture Funding
2004, February week
2 - Earliest known data recovery from a failed iPod
2004, February week
3 - Seagate Launches 2.5" 10K RPM Enterprise Disk Drive
2004, February week
4 - M-Systems will develop removable flash for Xbox
2004, January week 1 -
Toshiba Introduces World's Smallest Hard Drive
2004, January week
2 - LaCie Ships Universal Dual 8x DVD±RW Drive
2004, January week
3 - LSI Logic Delivers First SAS Controller IC
2004, January week
4 - Ideas Int'l Launches Storage Street Pricing Service
2003 - StorageSearch publishes SSD Price Guide
This expanded our SSD coverage from a simple directory of SSD companiesand news (started 1998) to a new guide with price bands. The SSD Buyers Guide evolved
in later years to add sub-directories filtered by interface type and form factor.
article:-
Chewing over 2003
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2003
Squeak! - the
Top 10 Storage Software Companies - 2003
Squeak! -
the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - 2003
2003, December week 1 -
Disk Storage Market Declined Says IDC
2003, December week
2 - Decru Secures Tape Backup
2003, December week
s 3 to 4 - Data Domain Gets $17 Million in Funding
2003,
November week 1 - SBS Launches 1st PMC InfiniBand Adapter
2003, November week
2 - ATAbaby Twins - the Tape Terminaters
2003, November week
3 - 3ware Cuts SATA Cabling
2003, November week
4 - Quantum Corp defragments itself
2003, October week 1 -
Olixir Launches Rugged Portable 3.5" Hard Disk Drive
2003, October week 2
- Memtech's SSD Endurance Surpasses 8 Million Writes
2003, October week 3
- Diskology Releases Disk Jockey
2003, October week 4
- SanDisk and Fujifilm Sign xD-Picture Cards Agreement
2003,
September week 1 - Plasmon to showcase UDO drives
2003, September week
2 - Storage Server 2003 is Now Available
2003, September week
3 - First PCI Express Fibre Channel HBA
2003, September week
4 - SAMSUNG Announces Flash Memory Breakthrough
2003, August week 1 -
Ramtron ships 1st 0.35 micron FRAM
2003, August
week 2 - Solid State Disks - a $10 Billion Market in 2007?
2003, August week 3
- Recovering Data after NY & Canada Grid Crash
2003, August week 4
- InfiniCon Demonstrates 150,000 IOPS Performance
2003, July week 1 -
SSDs become #1 search for readers of StorageSearch.com
2003, July week 2
- Promise Technology Selects Ramtron's FRAM for RAID
2003, July week 3 -
BlueArc Secures $47 Million New Funding
2003, July week 4 -
StorageNetworks Announces Liquidation Plan
2003, June week 1 -
Unigen Gets Patent for NV Data Protection
2003, June week 2
- Intel Sells ICP Vortex to Adaptec
2003, June week 3
- Seagate Enters Notebook Hard Drive Market
2003, June week 4
- LSI teams with Seagate to drive SAS interoperability
2003,
May week 1 - "Tape is a thing of the past" - says Diamond Lauffin at
Nexsan
2003, May week 2 -
Imperial launches WhatsHot SSD tool
2003, May week 3 -
InoStor Gets US Patent for RAIDn
2003, May week 4 -
Tandberg Data ASA demerges
2003, April week 1 -
Emulex Ships One Millionth Fibre Channel HBA
2003, April week 2
- - Spectra ships native iSCSI tape libraries
2003, April week 3
- Seagate Overtakes EMC in Annual Storage Revenue
2003, April week 4
- CENATEK Announces Availability of RAMDisk XP
2003,
March week 1 - Sony Unveils USB/FireWire AIT Drives for SOHOs
2003, March week 2
- Tandberg Data introduces RAIDn technology
2003, March week 3 -
Aristos Logic Secures $20 Million in Series C Funding
2003, March week 4 -
HP Releases iSCSI Driver for HP-UX Servers
2003, February week 1 -
IBM Delivers First Bluefin Storage
2003, February week
2 - Adaptec Products Support Final iSCSI Standard
2003, February week
3 - Sony Busts 1TB Tape Barrier
2003, February week
4 - world's first terabyte class SSDs announced
2003, January week 1 -
HP Introduces Fastest Ever DVD Writers
2003, January week 2
- AMD and M-Systems Expand Flash Agreement
2003, January week 3
- Fibre-channel grows to 71% of QLogic's business
2003, January week 4
- Topio closes $10M 2nd round VC funding
2003, January week 5
- Paralan Launches Ultra320 SCSI HBAs
2002 - 1st terabyte SSDs start shipping
article:- Chewing over
2002
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2002
article:- the
Top 10 Storage Software companies 2002
2002, December week 1
- Imperial launches MegaRam-SuperSpeed SSD software
2002, December week
2 - YottaYotta Sets Record for Disk-to-Disk Bulk Transfer
2002, December
weeks 3 - 4 - EMC Ranked 1 in Storage Brand Awareness
2002, November week 1
- ActionFront completes 10,000 Data Recoveries
2002, November week
2 - InfiniCon is First to Deliver End-to-End InfiniBand
2002, November week
3a - ASACA Launches FireFly Digital VTL
2002, November week
3b - Silicon Image's SATA Controller Selected by Adaptec
2002, November week
4 - Interphase launches PowerSAN PMC FC adapter line
2002, October week 1a
- Arkeia Announces MySQL Plug-in
2002, October week
1b - JMR Launches StorBlade
2002, October week
2 - Maxtor One Touch Disk Backup
2002, October week
3a - SnapApp is Back
2002, October week
3b - The New Goldrush? - Network Accelerators
2002, October week
4 - CNT Makes Remote Tape Backup Look Local
2002, October week
5 - Big Iron gets an iSCSI Facelift ,
2002, September week 1
- Microsoft Delivers Multipath I/O for Storage
2002, September
week 2a - Maxell Ships One Millionth Super DLTtape Cartridge
2002, September
week 2b - Intel Unveils SATA RAID and iSCSI
2002, September
week 3a - New Licensees for Quad Band Memory
2002, September
week 3b - Imperial Raises the IQ of SSD SAN Accelerators
2002, September
week 4 - Qualstar Ends 9 Track Tape Drives Production
2002, September
week 5 - StorageTek Unveils Fastest, Highest Capacity Tape Drive
2002,
August week 1 - Dot Hill Ships 5000th SANnet Storage System
2002, August week 2a
- IBM Ships Seagate's 15K Ultra320 Cheetahs in RAIDs
2002, August week 2b
- 3ware Ships 1st Enterprise Class SATA Controller
2002, August week 3a
- Cisco Enters Fibre Channel SAN Switch Market
2002, August week 3b
- Seagate Demos Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording
2002, August week 4a
- I/OMagic is #1 Seller of CD-RW Drives in USA
2002, August week 4b
- M-Systems & Toshiba Collaborate on SSD DiskOnChip
2002,
July week 1 - SATA enters top 3 searches on StorageSearch.com
2002, July week 2
- InfiniCon Launches InfiniBand Starter Kits
2002, July week 3a
- SNIA Launches Storage Security Group
2002, July week 3b
- EMC and HP Cross License Storage APIs
2002, July week 4a
- DataDirect Announces Plug and Play SAN
2002, July week 4b
- 2 out 3 Data Centers Deploy SANs,
2002,
June week 1 - LSI Announces 1st Ultra320 PCI RAID
2002, June week 2a
- Nexsan Launches Multi-Terabyte D2d Backup
2002, June week 2b
- 1st Chipsets with Integrated USB 2.0
2002, June week 3
- DiskOnChip Capacity Rises to 1 Gigabyte
2002, June week 4a
- Western Digital Delivers 1st 200GB Hard Drives
2002, June week 4b
- Archiving Digital Data for 100 Years
2002,
May week 1a - 2 Terabytes / Hour Backup Milestone
2002, May week 1b -
Set top HDDs will make money for Cable TV
2002, May week
2a - 1st Flash Memory Based on MirrorBit Architecture
2b,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
2002, April week 1
2a,
2002, April week 2b
- IEI ships NAS flash SSD to USA
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
2002, March - week 1 -
BiTMICRO and CENATEK collaborate on PCI SSD
2002, March week
2a - Pirus Networks Ships First Intelligent Storage Switch
2002, March
week 2b - SanDisk Launches World's Largest Capacity CF Card
2002, March week
3a - Cypress Ships 2 Million USB 2.0 Units
2002, March week
3b - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack Backed Up on VXA-1 Tape
2002, March week
4a - Infineon Samples Gigabyte DDR SDRAM
2002, March week
4b - Overland Brings Infiniband to Tape Market
2002, February - week
1a - a Terabyte of SAN disk and tape for under $50k?
2002, February -
week 1b - Compaq sets date for vote on HP merger
2002, February -
week 2a
2002, February -
week 2b
2002, February -
week 3
2002, February -
week 4 - SATA 2 working group announced
2002, January - week 1,
2,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b,
5,
2001 - iSCSI is born
article:-
2001 a Year to Forget
Squeak! - The
Fastest Growing STORAGE companies in 2001
article:- the
Top 10 Storage Software companies 2001
2001, December - week
1a - Optosys ships world's first gigabyte CF-2 card
2001, December -
week 1b - Kentron Announces Quad Band Memory Roadmap
2001, December -
week 2a,
2001, December -
weeks 3 to 4,
2001, November - week
1a,
1b,
2a,
2b,
3,
4,
2001, October - week
1a,
1b,
2a,
2b,
2001, October
- SSD makers Adtron and Solid Data named among fast growing US companies,
2001, October -
week 4 - Alacritech Ships Industry's 1st GbE Accelerator
4b,
5,
2001,
September - week 1,
2,
3a,
3b,
4a,
4b
2001, August -
week 1,
2,
3,
2001,
August - week 4 - Imperial
announces trade in program for old SSDs
2001, July - week 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
2001, June - week 1
,
2001, June - week
2 - Adtron Ships 14GB 3.5" SCSI Flash SSD
3,
4,
2001,
May - week 1 - LSI Logic first to validate Ultra320 SCSI interoperability
2001, May - week 2
- VXA-1 Tape Drives Gain Acceptance in Mac Market ,
3,
4,
5,
2001, April - week 1 -
World's 1st NAS Refragmenter
2001, April - week
2 - NetApp Endorses iSCSI
2001, April - week
3 - Sony Transitions DDS Tape Format
2001, April - week
4 - Paceline Secures $20 million for InfiniBand
2001, March - week 1,
2001, March - week
2,
2001, March - week
3,
2001, March - week
4 - StorageSearch.com publishes 1st iSCSI directory
2001, February - week
1 - Intel began strategic flash memory supplies to Cisco,
2,
3
2001, February -
week 4 - 1st Mention of Serial ATA /SATA
2001, January - week
1,
2,
3,
4,
5
2000 - SATA is born
2000, December
- week 1 - ,
2000, December -
week 2 - Imperial's SSDs are eBay's Holiday Helpers,
2000, December -
weeks 3 to 4 - WorldStor Locks Up $33 million 2nd Round ,
2000,
November - week 1,
2,
3,
4,
2000, October - week 1,
2,
3,
2000, October -
week 4 - EMC Study Finds Explosive Data Growth,
2000, September
- week 1 - Maxoptix launches DVD-RAM Libraries,
2,
3,
2000, September -
week 4 - Auspex Raises $90 million funding
2000,
August - weeks 1-2
2000, August - week
3
2000, August - week
4 - 1st SATA HDD Unveiled at IDF
July 2000, weeks 1-2 - SST Launches PATA SSD
on a Chip
May
,
2000, June - HP
partners with EMusic.com
3 - 4
April 2000
March 2000
February 2000 - BiTMICRO
unveils fast 18GB 3.5" PATA SSD
February 2000 - Ampex
stores 150 hours of MPEG video on a single cartridge
January 2000 -
WD exits
enterprise hard drive business and Komag Ships 10GB Per Platter
1999 - tape library
market optimistic
as users look at
the Cost of Owning and
Storing Data
1999 - a terabyte of RAID storage cost $79,000. See the contemporary banner ad (above) we ran with that price point from Dynamic Network Factory.
In November 1999 - the number of market active SSD manufacturers listed on STORAGEsearch.com had reached 11.
Artecon merged with Box Hill Systems to become Dot Hill
1998 - 1st publication to unify whole storage market
1998 - StorageSearch.com is launched in September 1998. It was the world's 1st publication which covered the whole storage market. Before that storage publications had covered just disks or tape -and storage had been regarded as a tied to particular vendor or OS markets.Also, in the same month, Google Inc. is incorporated as a company.
1997 - Imation launches the SuperDisk - which was a very high capacity (at the time) floppy disk drive - offering nearly 100x the capacity of an industry standard floppy disk. DEC ran an ad for its StorageWorks in our SPARC Directory to target Sun users - who spents billions of dollars on 3rd party storage from DEC and EMC in the following years because they were much better than Sun's own storage arrays.
1995 - Xiotech founded.
How big were disk drives and memory in 1995? - Sun Microsystems launched its first 64 bit SPARC workstations, the Ultra-1 and 2. RAM was upto 512MB. The internal 3.5" hard disk provided upto 4.2GB capacity.
1994 - first directory of Fibre-channel adapters published in ACSL's SPARC Product Directory
Ancot ships first Fibre Channel analyzer.
1992 - HDD spin reaches 7,200 RPM
Seagate started shipping the 1st 7,200 RPM HDDs.1991 - ACSL, publisher of STORAGEsearch.com founded. Our first product (1992) was a printed directory of Sun SBus compatible host bus adapters, and SPARC workstations and servers.
1988 - CMS Peripherals founded.
1987 - RAID concept created by the University of California at Berkeley
Plasmon founded.
Bus-Tech founded.
1986 - the editor, then working as hardware manager at a UK company called Databasix, was tasked with designing a disk array controller to parallelize the data transfer from multiple low cost 5.25" hard disks. We didn't call them RAIDs in those days - because the term hadn't been invented yet - but the concept was not new. The prototype proved the concept - but we didn't productise it.
1985 - PNY Technologies founded
1984 - Qualstar founded.
1981 - SCSI interface launched as a virtual intelligent disk drive connection.
LSI Logic founded by by Wilf Corrigan.
1980 - BMC Software founded.
Overland Storage founded.
1979 - Egan and Roger Marino start EMC.
Spectra Logic founded.
Seagate Technology founded. Its first product, the ST506 hard drive, had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
SASI interface created by Shugart Associates. This was the precursor to SCSI (parallel SCSI) - article:- SCSI History - PCGuide.com
1978 - Texas Memory Systems founded.
Memories of 1978
Editor:- as an "experienced" (1 year out of college) electronics engineer in 1978 - I started designing and managing my own first complete product (an automated fuel flow consumption meter and data logger for engine test beds) using Intel's 8748 microprocessor. That was a single chip micro with I/O, timers, program and user memory all on the same chip. The memory capacity was 1k bytes (1, 024 bytes) and the RAM was 64 bytes!
I managed to squeeze everything, including the operating system, into the 1k with about 5 bytes to spare - because the assembly language instructions were very efficient and occupied just 1 or 2 bytes, and I used a lot of subroutines.
Needing quite sophisticated maths and not having the time nor inclination nor memory to do this - I cheated by adding in a calculator chip as a co-processor. In future designs, as I got more experienced, and the development tools got better I did more in software and less in hardware, and made sure there were sockets for expansion memory!
In my next project - moving on from manually looking up assembly language hex codes printed on a card edited on RAM and archived on EPROM (Prompt-48 development system) - to a development system which was more like a modern computer was a great productivity aid
Intel's (blue box) development system at that time cost more than my house - which is why we only bought one after we had proved this was going to be a viable business. It included a text editor (called Edit), an assembly language linker and loader, an in-circuit emulation system, 8 bit 8080 processor with 32K RAM and a VDU and floppy disk drive. It ran an operating system called Isis - which was the model for CP/M, and later, DOS.
BTW - I didn't complain too much about the Prompt-48 - which was my idea to save cost compared to using external consultants. In fact we rented it. It was a step up from what was used in an earlier microprocessor project - which I managed - having just come out of college but having read some micro manuals - which was as much experience as anyone else had in those days.
In that earlier, 1977 system, (a ship's diesel engine training simulator with over 400 digital, and 50 analog I/O in a 15 foot long, 6 foot high metal control panel covered in switches, lamps and meters) the development tools consisted of a teletype which punched hex codes onto paper tape. We used to spool hundreds of feet of paper tape all over the floor. That's what suggested the icon we now use on STORAGEsearch.com for storage software. Click on the image (right) to see a bigger picture of the tape and hedgehogs.
1976 - the world's #1 personal computer - the APPLE-II - is launched with 48k bytes on-board RAM - from Apple II History. How much memory is that? Well a kilobyte is about a thousand times smaller than a megabyte, which in turn is a thousand times smaller than a gigabyte. The whole PC had a memory about 1, 000 times smaller than the smallest flash memory sticks available circa 2003.
1972 - IBM's 8 inch floppy drive the IBM 3740 hits the market. Capacity is 250K bytes.
1970 - Intel launches the first commercially successful dynamic RAM
1979 - Western Digital founded.
1969 - StorageTek founded.
1967 - Dataram founded.
1956 - IBM invented the hard drive in San Jose, California and delivered it on September 13, 1956 as the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control.) ... from a Hitachi news story.
1953 - IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing System Machine is announced.
1949 - An Wang invents magnetic core store.
article:- 5 Decades of Magnetic Data Storage (1940's to 1990's) - by A. S. Hoagland (pdf)
