Hard Disk Drive 1956 vs 2011

and took another 51 years before the 1st 1TB hard drive appeared..

Remember way back but does not seam so long ago when Windows 95 came out, no I could not install it as my hard drive was to small just for the OS

I don't expect a 5V USB port would power that 5MB drive....expect that 1956 drive probably had a 100 amp fuse installed as power protection.

Too bad aircraft technology didn't follow Moore's Law.

I can't believe they threw it on a pallet and tied a rope around it. Doesn't look like it's going to fit through that cargo door.

I can't believe they threw it on a pallet and tied a rope around it.

Must have landed in Bangkok.

And for removable disc paks we had little things like this.

ah my first Hard Drive. 20mb plus 2mb memory expansion. Made my Amiga 500 a power house!

I don't expect a 5V USB port would power that 5MB drive....expect that 1956 drive probably had a 100 amp fuse installed as power protection.

I am certain that the PSU would have been a 3 phase unit to drive the spindle motor - as lopburi3 mentioned, the removable disk packs that came on the scene much later were enormous - imagine the size of the actual hard drive in the monster in the picture!

Many years ago a mate of mine and I got hold of an old 10Mb HDD unit to play around with (just for fun - cost us nothing as it was being thrown out by the TAB in Brisbane), but after powering it up once, we decided it was going to use too much power, and we didnt want to run up a huge electricity bill just to experiment with the thing, so it went in the junk pile. Very impressive though - it was very large - took a couple of minutes to get up to speed, and weighed enough that it took two of us to lift it...

In 1992, here in Bangkok, the company I worked for had two so called "mini hard drives" used in a piece of video editing equipment made by Quantel called a "Harry". I used to joke that they were called "mini" because they were the same size as a Mini Cooper. Not really of course, but they were a standard 19" rack mount unit (250mm x 416mm x 650mm)... it ran on a single phase 15A power supply, and again needed two to lift it.

LATE NEWS - Just found the info - Fujitsu M2294K/N 335Mb Hard drive.. for those who may be interested...

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/fujitsu/_brochures/Fujitsu_M2294_Brochure.pdf

Blu-ray disks back then..

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/327

My first hard drive, DEC RL02. 10MB.