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Seeing this huge 5MB hard drive being loaded into a plane in 1956 on TechEBlog puts modern technology into perspective. We think nothing of installing and using hundreds of gigabytes in our new computers. Or expect them to be small enough to fit onto our MP3 players. Will we look back 50 years from now and laugh at our “modern” miniature drives?
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April 13th, 2007
Believe it or not, I actually have seen some of these in our little museum at work.
April 13th, 2007
Holy Crap. I want that table soo bad it not even funny.
April 13th, 2007
Cool table! I want one! !_!
April 13th, 2007
Ha, i should fish out my old 256Mb
April 13th, 2007
Reading this article this morning really made me think about the direction mass storage devices
are heading. For instance sure we can make really small hard drives that fit in the palm of your hand, but the only problem is they are still hard drives….they have moving parts, and are limitted to the performace of the moving parts. I really think the future of storage devices are going to be in some form of solid state storage. One could almost do a page just like this one, but be about the evolution of the USB flash drive. Any ways sorry for the long post, just wanted to express my thoughts.
April 13th, 2007
I remember when I bought my first 1gb drive in the late 90s and I thought that was awesome compared to the 10mb drive I had in my 286 in 1989.
For $150 today, you can buy a *flash* drive that contains sixteen times the amount of space as the typical *hard* drive only a decade ago and about 3,200 times as big as the 5MB mammoth seen in the first photo above. And again – that’s just a *flash drive*.
April 13th, 2007
the shapes are cool
April 13th, 2007
wow… Did that say $400 for a 6gb in 2003? That seams like alot.
April 13th, 2007
2006 actually. Must’ve been a microdrive. Not exactly a fair comparison price-wise, but it’s the size that’s important.
April 13th, 2007
Hi Myles,
I would agree that solid state is the future, I am actually surprised that moving parts are still part of modern storage (including the DVD/CD). I can’t wait till this http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/ is miniature and affordable.
April 13th, 2007
I wonder how many worker’s comp claims there were with hardware designers back then? I bet when the 10MB hard drive was pitched at the R&D meeting many people cringed as the pain in their backs exploded.
April 14th, 2007
I remebmer when I bought my first 540 mg hard drive in 1994. My friends asked me what I was going to do with all that hard drive space.
April 14th, 2007
TG should produce a necklace with a fake harddrive about the size of that small one
April 14th, 2007
Now those are some biggies!
April 15th, 2007
These things are cool!
April 15th, 2007
I love that table!
April 15th, 2007
I want that table!
April 16th, 2007
[...] Satt och pratade lite om att det var “bättre förr”. Men efter att ha kollat in bilderna från Hacked Gadgets blir man onekligen tveksam eller vad sägs om denna 5MB hårddisk på bilden nedan. Leave a Comment [...]
April 20th, 2007
how much data does that table hold?
I assume it is a real hdd platter, so im guessing 1mb….
August 9th, 2007
I would hate to have to change heads on one of those old drives, modern drives are hard enough as it is, and we dont require a crane these days!
August 9th, 2007
I bet the magnets in the old hard drive could do some serious damage!
Data Recovery – http://www.cbltech.com
September 28th, 2007
it has been said before, and i am going to say it again – I WANT THAT TABLE!!!!!
September 28th, 2007
That table would be great in my breakfast nook.
September 29th, 2007
Looks like the table was 53meg.
http://www.singleservecoffee.com/archives/005664.php
September 29th, 2007
[...] ואם כבר דברים משעשעים, כך נראה פעם רכיב שהכיל 5MB שלמים. תמונות נוספות כאן. הפוסט נכתב ע”י אור בתאריך 30 בספטמבר 2007 (2:31). תגיות: Ynet, משעשע. להגיב על הפוסט | להתעדכן בRSS על תגובות וטראקבקים לפוסט כתובת לטראקבק: http://www.shvavim.net/wp-trackback.php?p=57 [...]
October 6th, 2007
It took a FORKLIFT to pick up that old 50s hard drive, imagine what the COMPUTER looks like! YIKES!!!
December 24th, 2007
They look way overpriced
March 9th, 2008
Wayyyy back I worked for a company who made HDDs. A 10MB drive at time had a 12″ platter, and a colleague’s job was to get the heads flying closer to the surface for greater data density. The result of the overnight runs where the heads were just that bit TOO close were quite spectacular.
October 18th, 2008
The picture showing 40 MB in 1985 costing $40,000 is waaay off. Around 1982 we interfaced a 8″ Quantum Q2040 40 megabyte drive to our Alpha Micro. The drive cost just a few $thousand.
By 2006, weren’t 6GB drives obsolete?
Mike
October 7th, 2010
[...] hard to believe that within our lifetime computer technology has come so far! You may remember this huge hard drive from the 50s that needed a forklift to move around but as we can see in the 80s the hard drives [...]