In 1956, IBM released the world’s first hard drive for computer storage. This storage hard drive is larger than a refrigerator and weighs more than a ton (1000kg).
The world’s first hard drive, despite its large size, can only store 5MB of data. At the time, this was already an amazing feat.
This hard drive was equipped with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer, the pride of that time. Currently, this computer has been overhauled by two engineers Dave Bennet and Joe Feng for display in Mountain View, California. Of course Ramac is still working fine and has successfully read the data written on that hard drive 40 years ago.
305 Ramac was developed by IBM to help companies get rid of huge piles of books. Ramac brings to the world the concept of magnetic storage disks, allowing you to instantly access data with no latency.
The Ramac system consists of a hard drive with 50 platters arranged vertically and coated with magnetic paint. This hard drive spins at 1200rpm. Data is written to it by changing the magnetic orientation of a point on the disk and then reading the data is done by reading that orientation.
