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The Story Of GMR Heads

Posted by Hemos on from the expanding-the-horizons-expanding-the-parameters dept.

lopati writes "The story of GMR heads, "the breakthrough that boosted the capacity of hard-drives from a few gigabytes to 100 gigabytes and more--came from chance observation, basic research and a vast, painstaking search for the right materials." Check out the helpful infographic." Background: This is a story, essentially, about how hard drives broke through some of the space limitations at the beginning of the 1990s - pretty cool background.

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  1. Re:space by Russ+Steffen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I will be the judge of how much disk space I need on my desktop thankyouverymuch. I say "keep making 'em bigger!"