Evolution of a
Terabyte of data
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A decade by decade guide to storing 1TB of data from the 1950s to 2015
1956
Year Released
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1960s
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1961
Year Released
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1964
Year Released
tas
Capacity
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‘Nicknamed a Pizza Oven due to its looks
IBM 2314
Disk Drive
1970s
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codenamed "Merlin®
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$87,700
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(Piccolo) Hard Drive
1980s
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Year Released
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1965
Year Released
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Capacity
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1970
Year Released
‘Amajoc milestone, 25 16M
reintroduced fixed disks and
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$62,500
317.5MB x2
14” 2
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coin
1979
Year Released
opacity
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$2,170
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Storage Device (DASD)
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1988
Year Released
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Capacity
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robe u HOD
thnext generation
‘of portable
computers including
‘subnotebook
pen and palmtop
Systems
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IBM Deskstar
16GP
2000s
The Worlds
fist USB
Flach Drive
$54
Weight
Trek
ThumbDrive
Toshiba 2GB USB
Flash Drive
Sandisk 2GB
microSD Card
Hitachi Deskstar
7K1000
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$1,145 DataTraveler
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USB Flash Drive
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SanDisk Extreme
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1997
Year Released
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Capacity
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2000
Year Released
The Worlds
first 268 USE
Flash Drive
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