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Magnetic drum

1932 - Gustav Taushek

A rotating cylinder coated with a magnetic material, used for storing data.

Magnetic tape

1951 - Fritz Pfleumer

A long strip of plastic coated with a magnetic material, used for storing data.

Hard disk drive

1956 - IBM

A stack of rotating platters coated with a magnetic material.

Floppy disk

1967 - Alan Shugart

A small, flexible disk coated with a magnetic material, used for storing data.

Compact cassette

1971 - Philips

A small, magnetic tape cassette used for storing data.

Zip drive

1980 - Iomega

A removable disk drive with a capacity of up to 100 MB.

CD-ROM

1984 - James Russell

A compact disc that can store up to 700 MB of data.

DVD-ROM

1994 - Kenji Kashiwaya

A digital versatile disc that can store up to 4.7 GB of data.

Blu-ray Disc

1995 - Sony and Philips

A high-definition optical disc that can store up to 25 GB of data.

Solid-state drive

2000 - SanDisk

A type of storage device that uses flash memory to store data.

USB flash drive

2003 - IBM

A small, portable storage device that uses flash memory to store data.

Cloud storage

2007 - Amazon Web Services

A service that allows users to store data on remote servers.