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- On December 1, 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded
IBM the U.S. National Medal of Technology for 40 years
of innovations in hard disk drive technology and information
storage products.
- IBM received 450 storage patents in 2002, more than
twice as many as any other vendor.
- IBM's current 100GB Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape
puts the equivalent of 2.5 tracks of data onto a strip
of tape no wider than a human hair. At a thickness
of less than 1/10th of a human hair, the tape moves
through the drive at the rate of up to five meters
per second.
- A terabyte is equal to the number of human heartbeats
on the Earth every 2.4 minutes. In seconds, a terabyte
is equal to 32,000 years. A terabyte of paper stacked
would be 66,000 miles high. If a terabyte of pencils
were placed side by side, they would stretch 4.5 million
miles. One terabyte is equal to 16 days of continuously
running DVD movies or 8,000 times more data than the
human brain retains in a lifetime.
- In 2002, IBM recorded 1 terabyte of data to a linear
digital tape cartridge, storing 10 times more data
than any linear tape cartridge then available.
- IBM's Shark storage system offers up to 6.9 terabytes
of Standby Capacity on Demand. Since the IBM Enterprise
Storage System was introduced in 1999, IBM has shipped
more than 14,000 of the "Shark" systems.
Shark storage systems are installed in 74 percent
of the Fortune 100 companies.
- Since the late 1950s, disk-drive technologies have
yielded a 17-million-fold increase in the amount of
information that can be stored on a given area of
disk surface.
- To store a gigabyte's worth of data just 20 years
ago required a refrigerator-sized machine weighing
500 pounds. Today, that same gigabyte's worth of data
resides comfortably on a disk smaller than a coin.
- While disk storage technology may be more than 40
years old, there has been an eight-thousand-fold speedup
in the amount of data a hard drive can read and write
in a single second, and a million-fold decrease in
the cost of storing each bit of data.
- IBM is helping the European Organization for Nuclear
Research to create a data file system to handle up
to a petabyte (a million gigabytes) of data, which
is the equivalent to the information stored in 20
million four-drawer filing cabinets or 500 million
floppy disks or 1.5 million CD-ROMs.
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