hard drive history
- beginings -
mfm drives of the 1980s
- smaller, faster -
early 3.5 inch drives
- transition -
primitive ide drives
- finding the formula -
ide as we know it
- barriers -
stuck at 528MB
- revolutions -
3600 > 4500 > 7200 rpm
- size matters -
especially when you can't get it
- size still matters -
is there ever enough?
- 1998 -
a year of transition
- 1999 -
maturity
- 2000 -
sea change
- 21st century -
big, cheap, bland