User:Becksguy/Disk storage

Consumer related disk storage
Consumer related disk storage systems include:
 * Laserdisc
 * Phonograph - Analog mechanical sound playback disc; played on a turntable. See also: Gramophone record, 45 record, vinyl, LP album, Album
 * Capacitance Electronic Disc - Early analog electro-mechanical video playback medium, developed by RCA.
 * Transcription discs - Analog mechanical audio recording and playback disc for the mechanical recording of early radio broadcasts by the station or studio before audio tape recording systems.
 * Phonovision

Computer related disk storage
Computer related disk storage can be classified by form factor (size of the drive: 1.8, 2.5, 3.5, 5.25 inches as some examples for personal computers, with 2.5 and 3.5 inches being the most common currently), technology (magnetic, optical, or magneto-optical), and interface (IDE, ATAPI, SCSI, USB, Parallel port, PATA, SATA, ST-506, SASI.

Non-removable disk storage generally refers to fixed hard disk drives contained within the computer case and generally used as the boot device containing the operating system, as well as the user files.

Increasingly, solid-state drives can be used as the primary, and in some cases, the only fixed storage device, especially in netbooks and some laptops designed to operate in a harsher environment. Although solid-state drives are not disk storage devices in a strict sense, as there are no rotating magnetic platter(s), to the operating system they appear to be disk drives.

Removable disk storage refers to disk storage in which the media or media cartridge is designed to easily removed and replaced by the user, such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, writable compact discs, DVDs, and Iomega Zip drives.

The first and most wildly used removable storage medium for personal computers was the floppy disc (or diskette), most familiar as the IBM floppy disk. [To do: Research Shugart Associates and others for early computer FD devices/interfaces]

Iomega Bernoulli Box
The Bernoulli Box (or simply Bernoulli) was a removable disk storage system from Iomega, originally released in 1983, and based on the Bernoulli's principle. They came in sizes of 5, 10, and 20 MB. It's successor, the Bernoulli Box II was released later in the 1980s and had storage sizes ranging from 20 MB to 230 MB. They usually had a SCSI interface and both are obsolete.

Iomega Jaz drive
The Jaz drive was a second generation removable disk storage system from Iomega, originally released in 19xx. Although the drive and ...

Iomega Zip drive
The Zip drive is a removable disk storage system from Iomega, originally released in 1994. The drives are currently available from Iomega with ATAPI (primarily for internal use) and USB (primarily for external use) interfaces, and with a storage capacity of either 750 MB or 250 MB respectively. The disk cartridge media are generally easily available, although significantly more expensive than floppy disk media and somewhat more expensive than flash drives, with significantly less storage capacity than a typical flash drive. The Zip drives were a very popular large capacity alternative to the floppy disc.

Iomega REV
The Iomega REV drive is a removable hard disk storage system from Iomega, originally released in 19xx.

Iomega Pocket Zip drive
The Iomega Pocket Zip drive was a small removable disk storage system introduced by Iomega in 1999. It was available with USB or PC Card interfaces and had a 40 MB capacity using floppy disk like technology. The disk cartridges were matchbook sized and weighed less than half an ounce making them very portable. The drive has been discontinued, but blank cartridges are still available.

MiniDisc
The Sony MiniDisk was designed and marketed as a digital replacement for the analog audio cassette in 1992 and uses magneto-optical digital storage. In its newer 1 GB capacity, released in 2004 as Hi-MD, it can also be used to store and retrieve digital data between a Hi-MD device and a computer via USB and is seen by the computer as a USB Mass storage device.