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  1. The Past and Future of the Hard Drive

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by chrisd · from the 120-tb-and-only-a-bernoulli-for-backup dept. · 223 comments
    Snags writes "Brian Hayes of American Scientist has written a nice little historical review of hard drive technology, from the first hard drive (nice pic) made by IBM in 1956 to what may be available in 10-15 years. He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive with text, photos, audio, and video (60,000 hours of DVD's). Kind of ironic that this came in my mailbox today considering IBM's announcement."