1956: A 5 megabyte IBM harddisk

[zombie67]

https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/358478473326645248/photo/1

1956: A 5 megabyte IBM harddisk is loaded into an airplane. It weighed over a 1000kg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPmSRa7CUAAJioA.jpg:large

[DrPop]

DUDE! That was literally a TON of data. :)) :D

[Duke of Buckingham]

DUDE! That was literally a TON of data. :)) :D

Is a very heavy data.=))

[litehouse43]

I'm running one of those now in my server. ;)

[Cruncher Pete]

https://twitter.com/HistoricalPics/status/358478473326645248/photo/1

1956: A 5 megabyte IBM harddisk is loaded into an airplane. It weighed over a 1000kg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPmSRa7CUAAJioA.jpg:large

I nearly got fooled and believed that picture, bur I know that it is not what it appears. The truth is that the picture shows the delivery of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile fuel storage system (IBM). Note the Navy guys in the holding bay with their clue board looking on to make sure everything is ship shape.

Oh yeah, how far we come in such a short time. Today a Microsoft Operating system is so bloated that it needs Gigabytes and not just megabytes. Yet the old Microsoft windows system like windows5 fitted on floppy disks and was as good as it is now. Crap... It got ruined by the Media advertising department headed by you know who.
I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing...Now hear this, now hear this, if you do not listen, you will be subjected to water torture...:D

[Duke of Buckingham]

An interesting article with that and other pictures with the title "Amazing facts and figures about the evolution of hard disk drives" only as curiosity.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4368314776_c8223ea75e_o.jpg

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/