Of special interestOf special interestThis section contains links to selected pages containing information of special interest to the disk drive industry.
Recording technology
General
Five decades of disk drive industry firsts The most significant milestones in the disk drive industry's history.
History of recording In honor of the 100th anniversary of the first patent for magnetic information recording, we have added this page.
Disk drives take eventful spin Some early disk drive history, courtesy of EE Times.
How much information? A study published in 2000 by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California which attempts to measure how much information is produced each year on the planet Earth.
How much information -- 2003 Updated University of California study estimating how much new information is created each year.
Hard disk drives
Ion milling
Magnetic recording: Semiconductor
Optical cardsLaserCard (Previously Drexler Technology)
Phase change recordingStandards
ANSI/INCITS Technical subcommittees and standards
Miscellaneous
First regular radio broadcasts
Industry structure and trendsIDEMA Insight article by James N. Porter
Disk Drives' Evolution
Presentation by James N. Porter, DISK/TREND
Given at the 100th Anniversary Conference on Magnetic Recording and Information Storage, Santa Clara University, December, 1998.
This document is a PDF file, about 1.2 megabytes in size. It requires the Adobe Acrobat reader, and may take a few minutes to download, depending upon your net connection.
UCSD Information Storage Industry Center papers on the hard disk drive industry
UCSD papers on the rigid disk drive industry
Stock and mutual fund prices
Product data
