Old Computer Hard Drives Were The Size Of Your Washing Machine - Here's Why

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...
EDN

IBM intros 1st computer disk storage unit, September 13, 1956

Weighing in at more than a ton and storing 5MB of data, the IBM 305 RAMAC was the first supercomputer with a hard disk drive (HDD). Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random ...
SpaceNews

IBM Microdrive Is Out Of This World – World’s Smallest Hard Disk Drive Completes Two Successful NASA Shuttle Missions

IBM says its award-winning one-gigabyte Microdrive(TM) offers the ruggedness and performance ideal for outer space or earthbound photographic missions. This, after NASA astronauts successfully stored ...
CNN

IBM technology quadruples disk space

(IDG) -- IBM is developing a technology that it says will quadruple the capacity of a disk drive and dramatically increase the amount of data that can be stored on disk. The company is adding a new ...
eWeek

IBM Builds on 50 Years of Spinning Disk Storage

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
Computerworld

IBM hoping new ‘pixie dust’ hard disk drives fly

IBM today launched three hard disk drive products — the Deskstar 120GXP, Travelstar 60GH and Travelstar 40GN — that include its magnetic coating technology, nicknamed pixie dust. The new technology, ...
Forbes

IBM Announces The Disk Drive

This week’s milestones in the history of technology include the opening of the first world fair, two early British computers, one playing a game, the other producing one of the first computer programs ...
Wired

Tech Time Warp of the Week: The World's First Hard Drive, 1956

IBM unleashed the world's first computer hard disk drive in 1956. It was bigger than a refrigerator. It weighed more than a ton. And it looked kinda like one of those massive cylindrical air ...
Post-Bulletin

FTC clears IBM disk drive deal

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Federal Trade Commission has cleared IBM's sale of its disk drive operations to an affiliate of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Ltd. The federal agency acted the day before ...
InfoWorld

IBM revs up enterprise-class disk storage arrays

New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...
Orlando Sentinel

COMPANY TO SEND IBM ON SEA DIVE

IBM computer products soon will dominate the sea just as they dominate the land. In a few months, a Boca Raton company with no respect for IBM’s disk drives intends to “take revenge” against the ...