Platter Drives – Also known as spindle drives and was first invented back in 1954 by IBM.
As time went a more standardized setup developed and popularity of PCs increased this standardization.
- 8″ – 1979 started by Shugart Associates
- 5.25″ – 1980Â started by Seagate
- 3.5″ – 1984 by Rodime
- 2.5″ – 1988 by PrairieTek
- 1.8″ – 1993 by Integral Peripherals
- 1″ – 1999 by IBM’s Microdrive to CF Type II slot
- 0.85″ – 2004 by Toshiba – currently holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest hard disk
Boosting Performance
- Short Stroking – This is hard to explain briefly, so it may be best to just listen to the podcast for this. HD tach – http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
- Defrag – When adding/removing programs and files, eventually your spindle hard drive (spindle only see performance drops) will become fragmented
SSD – Solid State Drive – Simplest way to describe it, they work very much like RAM, but really are EEPROM – Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.
Hard Drive Repair
- Paying someone to do it: Gillware: personally used, very happy with my experience with them.
- Freezing the hard drive
- Replacing the controller board
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