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They built their hard drives big, way back then…

Monday 17 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals

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THIS IS WHAT a 5mB hard drive looked back in 1956. Today, a portable hard-drive that fits in your back pocket can hold two terabytes, about 400,000 times more space than the first hard drive. And it can cost less than $60.

THIS IS WHAT a 5mB hard drive looked back in 1956. Today, a portable hard-drive that fits in your back pocket can hold two terabytes, about 400,000 times more space than the first hard drive. And it can cost less than $60.


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