SSD Development History

Aug 19, 2022

In 1956, IBM invented the world's first hard disk.

In 1968, IBM re proposed the feasibility of "Winchester" technology, which laid the development direction of hard disk.

In 1970, StorageTek company (sun StorageTek) developed the first solid state hard disk drive.

In 1984, Toshiba invented flash memory.

In 1989, the first solid state disk appeared in the world.

In March 2006, Samsung took the lead in releasing a 32GB SSD notebook computer,

In January 2007, SanDisk released a 1.8-inch 32GB solid state disk product, and in March, it released a 2.5-inch 32GB model.

In June 2007, Toshiba launched its first 120GB SSD notebook computer.

In September 2008, the official release of memoright SSD marked that Chinese enterprises accelerated their entry into the SSD industry.

In 2009, SSD witnessed a blowout development, with major manufacturers flocking to it, and storage virtualization officially entered a new stage.

In February 2010, MgO released the world's first SATA 6gbps interface solid state disk, which broke through the reading and writing speed of 300MB / s of sataii interface.

At the end of 2010, renice launched the world's first high-performance msata solid state drive and obtained a patent.

In 2013, Samsung launched vnand 3D flash memory.

On July 21, 2022, Samsung Electronics announced that the company had successfully developed the second generation of smart solid state drives (smartsds), which will be used to seize the future market in the future.