Peter Cohen has penned a fabulous «History of Hard Drives» for BackBlaze. He walks us through the earliest days of mainframe-related storage to today’s SSDs, with lots of historic photos to illustrate the timeline. I love lore of all sorts—particularly computer-related lore—and I gobbled up this post. That said, I don’t often link to company blog posts as a Cool Stuff Found, but Peter talks about his employer very little—the focus is the history. If you’re a nerd, it’s a great read.
Check It Out: Peter Cohen’s ‘A History of Hard Drives’
That is pretty cool. I did not know about the hard drive early years. I came into computers with the Apple ][, so I don’t have much knowledge about before that.