Internal Hard Drives
Hard drives have become the most prolific storage device for most computers since their “invention” after World War II. Hard drives are random access devices that store and read data using magnetic read/write heads that are afloat on spinning ceramic, glass or aluminum platters or disks. These devices have been the preferred medium of storage since they have proven themselves to be reliable, faster, more affordable, and can store more information than other storage devices.
Hard drives come either as internal or external. While external hard drives are simply defined as storage devices that are placed outside of a computer and can be portable or plugged in any USB or FireWire port, internal hard drives are usually installed inside the CPU casing. Usually, internal hard drives come along with fully-furbished desktop or laptop computers or OEMs, which do not need manual installation.
Tracing their heritage from the era of vacuum tubes and magnetic tapes after Second World War, hard drives were first “invented” by IBM in the 1950s through RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). The said machine revolutionized computation by recording transactions real-time and provided random access anytime. Hard drives back then were as big as cabinets and needed special environment due to sensitivity of the disk materials. In the 1980s, during the early phases of personal computers or PCs, hard disk drives became a top choice for information storage – and unlike today, most of these were built-in by the manufacturers or OEM. As time goes by, the quality of the material improved, hard drives became more affordable and their capacity increased. Today’s hard drives operate through SATA or SAS modes, which access data faster than their predecessors.
In this day and age, the trend of increasing necessity for data and information has led businesses in investing on high-capacity internal hard drives for their computers. At the same time, in order to minimize the cost of losing data and perhaps even income and productivity, businesses and personal users alike purchase on internal hard drives as back-up drives for their computers.
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