50th Anniversary of the First Hard Drive

ennuiner writes "Over at Newsweek Steven Levy has a column commemorating IBM's introduction of the first hard drive 50 years ago. The drive was the size of two refrigerators, weighed a ton, and had a vast 5MB capacity. They also discuss the future of data storage." From the article: "Experts agree that the amazing gains in storage density at low cost will continue for at least the next couple of decades, allowing cheap peta-bytes (millions of gigabytes) of storage to corporations and terabytes (thousands of gigs) to the home. Meanwhile, drives with mere hundreds of gigabytes will be small enough to wear as jewelry."

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we all know who needs those TB's.....

[ganjadude]

the pr0n industry..... i dont know anyone with a TB of word files.... i guess when office 2012 comes out the files will all be 20 megs for 1 line or text, but until that day, HD pr0n here we cum!!!