How storage evolves: from solid media to cloud storage

From ancient to ancient times, people are always in the record, are in storage. From ancient stone carvings, bamboo slips, to cloth, paper, to compact discs and flash memory, storage has been becoming simpler and more massive.

In the field of computers and Internet, storage has changed dramatically in just ten years. From small-capacity floppy disks to oversized removable hard disks, from portable high-capacity discs to smaller USB drives, from solid media to network-based cloud storage. Regardless of capacity, media or use, personal storage has a qualitative upgrade.

In the past, when we save data to disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, the data is our own, and in the internet age, you no longer have the data, you only have access to data and editorial rights.

The evolution of storage mode

1, hardware storage

Ten years ago everyone was using floppy disks and CDs as media for their data storage, but now it's rare to find devices with floppy drives. Floppy drive in the history of the trend is phased out, optical drive is also facing the same fate. More and more laptops are no longer equipped with optical drives, such as most netbooks, tablets, MacBook, etc. When Flash is available and gradually increases storage capacity, users have rarely used a device that occupies more than 30% of the size of the notebook.

The hot plug, the erasable and the portability of the USB flash drive provide a very convenient storage mode for the users. But the USB drive also began to gradually fail to meet people's need for data storage, people prefer to store and access data anytime, anywhere. With the reduction of hardware costs, the maturity of the Internet and software, the era of networked storage has come.

A dress pattern designed by Dacode is a good way to express the development path of electronic data storage:

2. Cloud Storage

A mailbox is the most basic web-based data storage tool. Before the birth of large capacity mailboxes, people are more or less using their own mailbox to store some important document files. When large mailboxes are upgraded to large capacity space, people often use mailboxes to store files for their own use.

With the popularity of the network, the speed of the promotion of network hard disk emerged. Network hard disks are not limited to file storage services like Rapidshare, but also include storage and sharing of Web2.0 services like Flickr and YouTube. Network hard drives make data sharing easier and faster. Imagine you do not need to send the CD from Beijing Courier to Guangzhou to be able to share your wedding video with friends in Guangzhou.

In fact, although the concept of cloud storage has been proposed in the last two years, its actual application began more than 10 years ago with an internet-based email system (the concept was first introduced by Hotmail, and Gmail is now a symbol of the field). Web2.0 's popular services, from Docs documents to Evernote notes, from Facebook to Twitter chatter, are also built on cloud storage mechanisms. It can be said that not every netizen knows the existence of cloud storage, but at least 80% Internet users have already lived in the cloud.

3. Cloud Computing

Just storage is not enough, why not let cloud server for us to complete the task, but we complete the task and then upload data to the cloud server?

Googledocs,zohooffice is the representative of cloud computing.