The hard drive has been the staple of the storage industry since the first one was shipped in 1956, and will continue to remain so for the foreseeable future. Eventually, new technologies will be ...

Over the next two decades, hard drive technology continued to evolve, becoming smaller, more affordable, and more accessible to businesses and consumers. By 1981, Apple introduced its first hard ...

1979 - IBM debuted the 3370, a 571MB drive the size of a modern-day photocopier. It used seven 14-inch "platters" to hold data. 1980 - IBM introduced the first 1GB hard drive. With its complete ...

By 1991, IBM had squeezed 1 GB into the 3.5-inch, eight-platter 0663 Corsair HDD, and by 2018, you could purchase a 16 TB 3.5-inch Seagate hard drive off the shelf, which equates to the storage ...

Hard drive storage has gone through the roof in recent years. Rotating hard drives that can hold 16 terabytes of data are essentially available today, although pricey, and 12 terabyte drives are ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...