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The Macintosh External Disk Drive is the original model in a series of external 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disk drives manufactured and sold by Apple Computer exclusively for the Macintosh series of computers introduced in January 1984.
Until Apple's introduction a year later of the Hard Disk 20SC, the first SCSI drive they manufactured, the HD20 was the only Apple-manufactured hard drive available for any Macintosh except the Macintosh XL. The HD20 was not compatible with any other Apple computer or other platforms.
The Fireball Plus KA, launched in 1999, was known for being Quantum's first 7200 RPM hard drive, while still having 512 KB of cache and an ATA-5 interface. It was available in 6.1, 9.4, 13.2 and 18.2 GB capacities with up to four platters.
The Apple Hard Disk 20SC is Apple's first SCSI based hard drive for the Apple II family as well as the Macintosh and other third party computers using an industry standard SCSI interface.
IBM uses many terms to describe its various magnetic disk drives, such as direct-access storage device (DASD), [a] disk file and diskette file. Here, the current industry standard terms, hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD), are used.
As of January 2024, the largest hard drive is 32 TB (while SSDs can be much bigger at 100 TB, mainstream consumer SSDs cap at 8 TB). Smaller, 2.5-inch drives, are available at up to 2 TB for laptops, and 5 TB as external drives.