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    The document describes the evolution of several secondary storage technologies from magnetic tape invented in 1928 to USB flash drives invented in 2000, including their inventors and typical speeds and storage capacities over time. Key technologies discussed are hard drives invented in 1956 that can now store up to 15 TB, solid state drives invented in 1991, CD-RWs invented in 1996, SD cards invented in 1999, and USB flash drives invented in 2000.

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    The document describes the evolution of several secondary storage technologies from magnetic tape invented in 1928 to USB flash drives invented in 2000, including their inventors and typical speeds and storage capacities over time. Key technologies discussed are hard drives invented in 1956 that can now store up to 15 TB, solid state drives invented in 1991, CD-RWs invented in 1996, SD cards invented in 1999, and USB flash drives invented in 2000.

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    SECONDARY STORAGES

    EVOLUTION

    MAGNETIC
    TAPE
    1928
    Inventor: Fritz Pfleumer
    Relative Speed: 300 MB/s (currently)
    Storage Capacity: 10-500 GB (currently)
    HARD DRIVE

    Inventor: Reynold B. Johnson


    Relative Speed: 80-160 MB/s
    Storage Capacity: Late 1950s,
    less than 1 GB. Now, however,
    they can store up to 15 TB.
    1956

    FLOPPY
    DISK
    Inventor: Alan Shugart
    Relative Speed: 100-250 KB/s
    Storage Capacity: 1.4 MB

    1971 SOLID STATE


    DRIVES
    (SSD)

    Inventor: Fujio Masuoka


    Relative Speed: 500 MB/s
    Storage Capacity: 120 GB - 30 TB
    1991

    ZIP DISK

    Inventor: the company that


    invented is called "Iomega"
    Relative Speed: 1.4 MB/s
    Storage Capacity: 250-750 1994
    MB
    CD-RW

    Inventor: James Russell


    Relative Speed: 1.32 MB/s
    Storage Capacity: 700 MB

    1996

    SD CARD

    Inventor: Fujio Masuoka


    Relative Speed: 12.5 MB/s
    Relative Capacity: these can USB FLASH
    go up to 2 GB
    1999 DRIVE

    Inventor: Dov Moran. These


    have different versions
    Relative Speed: 60 MB/s - 2
    GB/s
    Storage Capacity: 8 GB - 1
    TB

    2000

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