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I worked at IBM's San Jose plant on Cottle Road from 1979-1988 . The plant manufactured IBM's 3370 and 3380 mainframe disk drives. It was an immense manufacturing plant where we produced the hard disk drives spindles-- made ultra flat aluminum disks, deposited iron oxide onto the disks, and burnished the disks to achieve a certain "thickness" of the iron oxide. We also manufactured the "heads" that flew over the disks. It was a fun job, designing the robotic systems that made the drives. Sad to see all drive manufacturing go to Asia. A lot of people lost their jobs.

I would think the next advance in HDD technology would be drives with more than one head assembly for multiprocessor and networking applications. With a different case design, you could put four, maybe six, head assemblies around the disk without risk of collisions. Instead of multiple process waiting for access to a single head assembly, each process could access their own head assembly on the same drive.

Just want to go to the 1950s with a 1tb wd greed drive. Show them it works, then smash it. This is garbage to us

Hooray. Prof. Albert Fert mentioned, big name in spintronics technology :)

Marvelous!

You skipped a step. The Cambridge sold first to Leica. Zeiss acquired the SEM part from Leica. Zeiss also made TEM, but they renounced, focusing instead on STEM.

I do believe HDD will completely die in ~15 years. HDD always had one fundamental design flaw that caught up with it in the last decade - speed. Access speed AND sequential speed. Access speed is obvious - it will never be a system boot device again (sales are dropped massively because of this), it is forever doomed as a bulk storage. But here comes the massive problem with sequential read/write that will eventually kill even mass storage imo. Write/read speed increases only with linear density of the track, not with the number of tracks. Basically sequential speed increases with square root of capacity. This becomes a massive problem for restoring data of a failed drive. Today it takes days, tomorrow it will be weeks or some day perhaps months. And there's nothing you can do about it.

Nazi? From Mars? Say simply truth: germans!

Asianometry, can you do a video about Lee Hsein Loong or Lee Kuan Yew or Lawrence Wong or anything related to Singapore Prime Minister since PM Lee is going to retire and Mr Wong will takeover as PM today (15th May)?

Somebody listens to ACQ 😉

Seagate's uniforms being anti-ESD is so cool

When my friends were stick with commodore64 or Amigas, I had The PC40(mb) and was instantly the hero of my street

Well done asianometry

I tried to explain this to Muskrat cultist. Failed.

It was always going to play out that way, it's only recently that flash memory has become viable for consumer use and even then it's getting hobbled by limitations in fab lithography physics without taking a speed penalty. tbh, I do foresee a company using the SAS/u.2 connector on a 3.5 SSD due to the higher data density achievable but that will come at a heavy cost and lower adoption rate in the server market where HDDs dominate due to reliability, read/write endurance, and cost. Whoever cracks the code for high data density, operating cost, and speed will make trillions.

its sad we lost all these HDD manufacturers... we need prices at the bottom.. not this high cost... a 18TB Hdd should only be 80-100 usd... we need more affordable drives ( now SSDs) prices rising (purposefully holding back NAND flash is bull$h!t its called Market Manipulations and should be illegal

do one these on SSD or Solid state Drives ( from the earliest SSD to SATA * IDE SSDs and NGFF m.2 and m.2 SATA & m.2 NVMe and PCI-e Adin card SSDS

Last year i finally got rid of my last mechanical HDD after it crashes taken 4Tb of date with it. Replaced it by a SSD of 4Tb, to me it was something of a milestone. It was also the end of an era. I think it says much about the HDD industrie, i think they`re gone for the consumer. Besides, i think mechanical storage is way to expensive at the moment to compete with SSD`s.

c'mon, I had an apple IIc that taught me everything. Not even mentioned...

Very cool 😎

I worked in computer manufacturing from 78-2000 and remember the day we replaced our floppy disk based word processor with the IBM XT hard drive equipped PC. It cost around $3,500 then and we still thought it was easily worth the price. Today I fret over needing to buy a $500 PC to run Windows 11.

Like the floppy disks, the hdds are transitional storage platforms … and eventually solid state media will totally displace them … 5-8 years out …

The 3.5” double sided Mac compatible floppy was the last R&D effort that killed the Xerox own Shugart… that and reckless spending

The famed Winchester House is also in San Jose

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It’s not about showing off. It’s about enjoying a fine automobile. Most people treat their cars like crap and don’t enjoy them. Car guys love the LS400 because it’s a simple and beautiful car built extremely well. It has integrity. Itd got nothing to do with showing off. It’s about enjoying the drive. Enjoying the journey.

CPC is the name of the party, I think.

Bro, how did they establish a chip maling factory so fast?

The screenplay for Martin Scorsese movie writes itself...

You'll never fill that 18 TB drive! Porn addict: Hold my beer...

The IBM 2314 (29 meg per disc pack) and earlier drives used hydraulic actuators, that meant that maintenance was often mopping up the oil. As customer engineers we would regularly have to change disc heads because of head crashes, where the head had touched the plater. Drives manufactured by Memorex and the like had moved to large voice coils to replace the old hydraulic actuators.

I remember reading long ago that Sybase would not sell to Microsoft, so Microsoft instead hired all of their top talent. An act that kicked off the popularity of non-poaching clauses between companies and non-competes in employment contracts. We're seeing that come full circle as more and more rulings and legislation (especially in CA) are dismantling these practices.

Wow, I will never look at my hard drive the same.

"Growth and innovation has largely gone" Perhaps growth but hardly innovation the latest HAMR Heads offer some of the most innovative technology to be found anywhere in the world today, for instance latest Read/write heads have approx. 150 photo mask layers alone more than double most chips, and take many months to manufacture with upwards on 3000 individual manufacturing steps. The industry has also largely kept pace with Moore's law and will continue to be the go to Storage technology for Data centers for at least the next decade and beyond. This video gives some insight into the latest developments: ua-cam.com/video/NNzlxhDOhfs/v-deo.html

Great

I prefer the hybrid drives, merging the speed of an SSD with the extreme reliability and longevity of an HDD.

you've *gotta* know you've arrived when Nikita Khrushchev takes a tour of your factory (and then the conflicted feeling when he gets way more enamored with the lunchroom)

Slusovice JZD was shown as "model new JZD", but that wasnt replicable on big scale. Cuba used lots of connections and leverages to transform socialist JZD into (almost) capitalist venture, but not everyone was so lucky. Most of JZDs were using decades old machines that were held together only by creative work of maintenance crews. They could hardly think about expanding, even if there were intelligent people looking at new trends with sad expression on their faces. Otherwise czechoslovak semiconductor technology wasnt that poor, but once again, it lacked ability to import modern technology. Tesla(not that Tesla) semiconductors and components were pretty reliable. If you find some of Tesla TV or radio today, there is pretty good chance its still working just fine.

Great history as always

love the humour and educational video. Thanks.

I would have loved it if you would have given a slightly more indepth perspecrive of the HDD's future. Not just "it'll probably not die any time soon but loose relevance" but maybe talk about the inovations those companys are still trying to do like Dual Activator or HAMR with, maybe with its up- and downsides. Besides that a great video as always!

Your account is like opium for curious people. Thank you for making me addicted 😛.

Zerg rush. Ha ha ha

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Zerg rush x)

Finally spelled Aluminium right..... that deserves like.

We need a rapid price reduction for high capacity SSD's before HDD's will be replaced. Try buying a 20 TByte SSD and then look at HDD equivalent prices. Maybe one day 🙂🤷‍♂️

India is the source of all faked , poor qualities and falsified drugs...

I was looking for a storage increase on my pc the other day. By now, an 8-10TB SSD would be "normally" priced right. No, SSD stops at 4T and are expensive at that, there are a few bigger @ super premium prices. The market is the same as it was a couple of years ago. Some improvement in M2 drives but a normal pc have 2 slots so... The mechanical HDD seems to be here for a while longer.

I can’t really believe there is a product that literally sounds in Spanish as “Envy, Little ass (or sweet ass could be even a better translation)”. It makes so hard to pay attention haha