The pioneering hard disk concept of the IBM 3340 became the industry standard as the 30-30 or Winchester, which also found its way into PCs in the 1980s.

IBM says it delivers 10 times better performance than traditional HDD or hybrid solutions, making it optimized for sequential workloads. "The writing really is on the wall for the last of the ...

So it's helpful to occasionally be reminded. This is a picture of an IBM hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956. According to @HistoricalPics, which tweeted the picture, it's a 5 mega ...

After exploring various technologies, including wire matrices and rod arrays, IBM invented the hard disk drive in 1953 at its San Jose, California, lab. Initially, the technology was referred to ...

The IBM 350, the world's first hard disk, was released in 1956. As the RAMAC computer's memory, it had space for 3.75 megabytes of data. The cradle of the magnetic hard disk lies in the ...

Current tech depends on hard disk drives that use up to 100,000 atoms to store one bit of data, according to IBM. Future applications of this discovery could allow people to store 1,000 times more ...