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Punch Card Backups as a Reference Point in Backup History
It used vacuum tubes as main logic elements, rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs and punch cards to input and externally store data. -
The Evolution of Hard Drives and Disk-to-Disk Backup
IBM 305 RAMAC was the first hard dirve that was introduced. -
Magnetic Tapes and Tape Backup
One roll of magnetic tape could store as much data as 10 000 punch cards. -
Floppy Disks and their Contribution to Backup
It was a read-only 8-inch disk that could store 80kB of data. -
Local Area Networks
They were used to provide high-speed links between several large central computers at one site. -
CD-R/RW and DVD - New Backup Media
CD-Recordable (CD-R) and CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drives, we introduced due to the problem they had with floppy disks and their low compacity. -
File Transfer Protocol
It connects two computers over the Internet so that users can transfer files from one machine to another and perform file commands remotely. -
Storage Area Network
A storage area network (SAN) is a network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. It allows a machine to connect to remote targets such as disks and tape drives on a network. SAN can serve the backup purposes. It offers high-speed, immediate and programmable backup solutions to large enterprises. -
World Wide Web
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Network Attached Storage
They were designed to be attached to traditional data network. -
Flash Drives and Data Backup
The smallest of these drives stores several times more data than a traditional 3,5 inch floppy disk, and larger ones can hold as much data as a CD-ROM or even more. -
R.I.P. floppy disk
Fondly known as "diskette", the floppy disk became a fixture of the personal computer market in the 1980s and 90s, along with its perfectly matched paramour Floppy Disk Drive. It could handle 1.44MG. -
Self destructing DVD's
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Blu-ray Disks and HD-DVD
Blu-laser discs using organic dyes, such as the Sony Blu-ray format (between 23GB and 54GB) and Toshiba’s HD-DVD are the next step to further reduction of the cost of removable media along with capacity growth and improvement of usability. -
Optical disc offers 500GB storage
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Missile data found on hard drives
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Low power portable computers