Computer Data Storage Device - Hard Disk

A computer would never be the same without its hard disk and thus many consider it to be one of the vital organs (components) of the same. It is true that almost all the components of the system are important and help it run better but there remain a few which are the basic requirements of the computer. This includes processor, mother board, RAM, hard disk and a few other things.

The First Hard Disk introduced by International Business Machine (IBM) in 1956 for General and Computer use. The hard disk (also called HDD) has gone through many changes over the years, which have made it all the more in demand. The earliest of these were more of external drives as they were not part of the main system. They sat outside and were put into a separate case. Another reason for not counting it as a HDD was its memory capacity which was as less as 5 MB!

Numerous changes took place between the release of the first computer and the début of the modern-day disk drives. You would get to know more of it by going through the latest technology news. It was this time that the disk drives started becoming a part of the system (as we know it today).

Since the year 1988, a massive revolution took place in the world of computers. This was the time when the USB interface was brought into effect for the first time. This technology allowed other devices to be hooked to the computer at ease. This in turn gave birth to the concept of flash drives (pen drives) and external hard disks, for transferring files and easy backup of valuable files respectively.

There was a time when the external disks were considered bulky and cumbersome, but now we see a different version of the same. They are sleeker and small! No one knows the future of the hard disk drives, but we can certainly understand that it is going to become a lot more compact than what it is now. More the computing devices shrink and become small, more the HDD would play a significant role in it.

Further innovations and tweaks would surely turn the modern day hard disks into powerful storage mediums and would perhaps help us in a number of other ways. We can never imagine what is going to happen in the near future, but we can surely keep ourselves updated with the latest technology news and technology reviews.

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