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The Washington Post published a timeline of hard drives over the past 50 years and shows how far storage technology has come along. For instance:
1956: IBM ships the first hard drive, the RAMAC 305,which holds 5MB of data at $10,000 a megabyte. It is as big as two refrigerators and uses 50 24-inch platters. (For the full story and interviews with key players, read The Hard Drive Turns 50 .)
To put this in perspective, 5 MB is the average space occuppied by a single high quality MP3 song.
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26 February 2007, 12:12
My guess is that 50 years from now there will not even be hard drives.
technology is advancing at an amazing rate, and I am excited to see what is next.
21 July 2007, 01:10
Two fridges to play one song? Geeze that's some serious hardware size.
Crazy that you can get a 1 terabyte external drive that's only slightly bigger than a normal 250 GB drive these days...