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IBM Archives: IBM 305I BM announces the first hard drive, the IBM 350 that was to be included in the 305 RAMAC system by IBM. The first hard drive had an RPM of 1,200 and held up to 5MB of data.
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IBM Archives: IBM 1311 The IBM 1311 used the IBM disk pack and had a rpm of 1,500. The 1311 held 2.6MB of data.
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IBM Archives: IBM 3340 IBM announces the first modern hard drive, the Winchester, also known as the 3340. The 3340 had three different types of data modules, 35MB, 70MB, and 70MB with .5MB being on fixed heads.
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Wikipedia: RAID
RAID, redundant array of inexpensive disk, is patented by Norman Ken Ouchi at IBM. RAID technology allows several drives to work more efficiently together as one drive. -
IBM Archives: IBM 3370 IBM announced the 3370, which introduced the thin-filmed head to large disk hard drives. A single unit held 571.3MB of data, but a total of four could be used in one system for a total of approximately 2.3GB.
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IBM Archives: IBM 3380 IBM announces the first GB hard drive, which is the size of a refrigerator and weighs approximately 500 lb.
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Wikipedia: ST-506 The Segate ST-506 is the first 5.25 inch drive; it holds 5MB of data and costed approximately $1,500.
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Wikipedia: Parallel ATA Wester digital develop the Intelligent Drive Electronics, which allowed the controller for the hard drive to be installed within the device.
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0663 Corsair Specs IBM introduced the 0663 Corsair, which was the first to contain 1GB of space in a small form factor.
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IBM introduced the Deskstar 16GP Titan, a hard drive that used giant magneto resistive heads to house 16.8GB of data. The drive had five heads and each was 3.5in.
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Segate Barracuda ATA V Segate introduces the Barracuda ATA V, which is the first to use the SATA interface. The drive holds up to 120GB and has an RPM of 7,200.
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Segate release the Barracuda 7200.10, which was the hard drive with the most storage at the time. It could hold up to 750GB.
