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 ...

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 casing, it was the size of a ...

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 ...

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 ...