Which brings us to the beast in the pictures, made by IBM circa 1956 – 1957 it is a 5MB IBM hard drive. Yes indeed, a whopping 5MB of storage, 5,000,000 bytes! This massive hard drive was state ...

1956 - IBM shipped the first hard drive, its 5MB RAMAC 305. By today's standards it was unfathomably huge. Each megabyte cost $10,000, or $88,000 in today's dollars. 1963 - IBM unveiled the first ...

By 1981, Apple introduced its first hard drive, the "ProFile," which offered 5MB of storage for $3,499. Unlike the bulky IBM 350, the ProFile was compact enough to sit on top of Apple II ...

Opinions expressed are those of the author. Let’s go way back to 1956, when IBM introduced the first hard drive, a revolution in data storage. It weighed over a ton and was the size of a ...

The SSD or HDD that you're probably using now will look like a relic in just a decade, but look at what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956. IBM's 305 RAMAC was considered to be the first "super ...

A 5-megabyte hard drive required a forklift just to move it around back then, as seen in this photo from The Next Web of an IBM 305 RAMAC. Dubbed a ‘supercomputer’ back in the day, the 5MB hard drive ...

The drive was introduced in 1956 as part of IBM’s 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). It could hold a whopping 5MB of data on 50 24-inch-diameter disks. The hard drive ...

‘In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.’ ...

Check out IBM's 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) hard disk and those gripes ... an annual fee of $35,000 and stored up to 5MB of data. Sure, by modern standards it's ...

The first commercial hard disk drive was introduced in 1956 ... This groundbreaking drive offered 5MB of storage at $10,000 per MB. At the time, customers would pay over $3,200 per month to ...

So long, hard drives, and thanks for all the storage ... platters for a total storage capacity equivalent to roughly 5MB in conventional binary storage. It also filled a decent sized room ...