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Technological Impact of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives on Storage Systems

Overview Magnetic hard disk drives have undergone vast technological improvements since their introduction as storage devices over 45 years ago, and these improvements have had a marked influence on how disk drives are applied and what they can do. A real density increases have exceeded the traditional semiconductor development trajectory and have yielded higher-capacity, higher-performance, and smaller-form-factor disk drives, enabling desktop and mobile computers to store multi-gigabytes of data easily. Server systems containing large numbers of drives have achieved unparalleled reliability, performance, and storage capacity.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Removable Storage, Storage Management, Hard Drives

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