Technology
What was the storage capacity of the first commercially available hard drive?
5 MB
Background
The world's first hard drive stored just 5 MB of data. It came from IBM in 1956 and was called the RAMAC 305. The machine was as big as two fridges and weighed over a ton. Today a tiny USB stick holds millions of times more.
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