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Data Storage of the Present and Future

Computers, these days come with an amazing capacity for storing files, but most users know little about the technology behind their storage devices. Most of us are aware of how critical they are, as they contain all of our valuable data, but don’t consider the very real possibility of losing it to a number of different types of failure scenarios.

The hard drive has been the most common storage device in PCs for a long time, but as engineers run into more and more limitations with the aging technology, entirely new platforms are being envisioned and developed.

Tune in this week as Ken, Brandon, and Chad discuss current data storage technologies and what’s likely to hold your critical data in the future.

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Original Air Date: May 13, 2006

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• A brief history of hard disk drives
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