The hard drive: 50 years old

Here’s something that should be dear to any storage manager’s heart: the 50th birthday of the hard drive. CNet has posted a silent video of IBM’s first hard drive which held a total of 5MB of data. IBM announced this new technology on September 13, 1956.

Click here to view it. (Warning: a short ad precedes it)

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