Do you have a washing machine at home? How about those antique sewing machines with pedals? They’re big, right? They take up so much space that you want to buy a smaller one.
How about having a computer larger than these two machines combined? Can you handle that?
Before, computers were so large that a line of desks were not enough for it. In fact, a whole room was dedicated for computers alone. These computers were all analogue, processing only commands such as 1 and 0 (binary).
If computers occupied rooms, can you imagine how big hard disks were before? As big as your washing machine or sewing machine. Their capacities were only up to 20MB, but today’s hard disks are different. No matter how small they are, their capacities can reach giga or terabytes!
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February 05th, 200812:08 pm
Last piece to my three-part series (am I hearing that sigh of relief there?).
Reliable disks should be able to support those new software programs that have the tendency to be big and speedy. Hmm… I remember of gawking at the 1 GB disk space, but as time goes by and I started loading those addictive video games, I realized 1 GB is not enough! Well, there is always the alternative to not clog up your storage with too many games. But then again, maybe that�s just me.
January 05th, 200801:33 am
Image Source: ST
One of the worldwide leaders in disk drive and system-on-chip solutions, STMicroelectronics, has announced that they will release a motor-control chip for hard-disk drives (HDD). This chip is intended specially for “enterprise- level HDD applications.”
The new controller can do without external regulators for varying voltages that are usually required by the drive. In other words, it is highly efficient and suitable for demanding high level HDD applications. The controller called the L7220 has the latest version of Smooth Drive(R) pseudo-sinusoidal digital-drive technique which is exclusively developed by ST. This minimizes acoustic noise from the spindle motor among other things. The L7220 will be fully out by mid 2008 but evaluation samples are now available at $15,000
Source: CNN
