In the beginning
danball1976
Wichita Falls, TX
This thread is all about the original PC hard drives. Even though IBM invented the first hard drive in 1956, it was for mainframe applications, and held something like 5MB on 50 disks the size of a refridgerator, or according to the website:
Seagate however was the first to produce a hard drive for the PC market, and it was just 5MB and a MTBF of just 11,000 hours:
To read a little more about hard drives, go here:
RedHill Hard Drive Index
Or to see some of the first hard drives specs and such, click here:
<a href="http://www.danball1976.com/downloads/Legacy_IDE_Drives.zip">Legacy Drives</a>
IBM in 1956
The IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC machines are launched. The 305 is the first magnetic hard disk for data storage, and the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) technology soon becomes the industry standard. The storage capacity of the 305's 50 two-foot diameter disks was 5 megabytes of data
Seagate however was the first to produce a hard drive for the PC market, and it was just 5MB and a MTBF of just 11,000 hours:
To read a little more about hard drives, go here:
RedHill Hard Drive Index
Or to see some of the first hard drives specs and such, click here:
<a href="http://www.danball1976.com/downloads/Legacy_IDE_Drives.zip">Legacy Drives</a>
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