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History of hard drives

September 1956

IBM produces the RAMAC 305, the first computer with a hard disk to store data. The disk itself had a capacity of 5 megabytes and weighed over a ton.

RAMAC 305
RAMAC 305

The sixties...

IBM produces a hard drive called IBM 1311

IBM 1311

The seventies...

IBM 3310 (64 megabytes per unit)

IBM 3310

1979 hard drive: 250 MB

1979 hard drive: 250 MB

The eighties...

Things in 1985 look a little better

In the 1990s,

in 1992, HP launched the first 1.3-inch hard drive - what we later called memory cards.

HP launched the first 1.3-inch hard drive

Two thousand...

2005 - First 500 GB hard drive

2006 - The first 750 GB hard drive

2007 - First 1 terabyte (TB) hard drive

2008 - First 1.5 TB hard drive

2009 - First 2 TB hard drive

2010 - First 3 TB hard drive

beginning of 2011 - Prototype of 4 TB disk made

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