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Flash Drive was invented, Dov
Moran/M-Systems, it stores data
and comes in many forms, it's typically
used to transfer information, an 128-megabytes
drive sold for about $30The Memory Stick was invented,
Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan,
used for storage media for portable device
$100-$150Storage Tape
Introduced at World's fair in
Paris by Valdemar Poulsen
Stores digital information on magnetic
tape using digital recording
$99.99, making the price per GB $0.033DVD
invented and developed by Panasonic,
Philips, Sony, and Toshiba
Is a digital optical disc storage format and
a compact disc able to store large amounts of data
$25 DVD in 1995CD
Inventor is James Russell
A digitally encoded recording on an optical disk
$30 costHard Drive
Invented by IBM team led by Rey Johnson
Storage device containing a read-write
mechanism plus one or more hard disks,
inside a sealed unit
Disk storage unit leased for about $3,200 per month back in 1957Zip Drive
Invented by Iomega
Medium-to-high-capacity
removable floppy disk storage system
$10
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