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 ...

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 ...