Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random access method of accounting and control” and used a moving head HDD (magnetic disk storage) for secondary storage. So large that it had ...

The computer itself was vast -- about 30 feet by 50 feet (9m x 15m) -- and the storage device itself, the very first commercial hard disk drive, was a 1.5-meter cube.

Initially, IBM is using the AFC media in its Travelstar notebook hard disk drive products. Currently, it allows data densities up to 25.7 gigabits per square inch.

In 1956, IBM announced the first hard drive, the IBM 350 Disk File, which was designed to work with the IBM 305 RAMAC mainframe computer. The IBM 350 Disk File weighed about one ton, and stored up ...

An IBM San Jose research hub that produced many cutting-edge breakthroughs will close and shift its workers to another IBM ...

The Disk Storage Unit was introduced on Sept. 4, 1956, and the 305 RAMAC Computer was introduced on Sept. 13, 1956. That first computing unit had a total memory storage capacity of a whopping 5MB ...

Announced on September 4, 1956, the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit came with fifty 24-inch disks and a total capacity of 5 megabytes; its first customer was United Airlines’ reservations system.

The floppy disk was an invention of IBM as a way to load microcode into one of their ... 2014 Macbook Pro has no CD-ROM drive and 250GB of storage. We’ve digressed back to computers with little ...

IBM's new NAS Gateway 500 differs from Big Blue's current NAS Gateway 300 product; it uses IBM software, rather than a Microsoft operating system, as well as a higher-performance processor.

So his team set about building the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit — the world’s first hard drive. Created as high-speed storage for the IBM 305 RAMAC system, the IBM 350 weighed about a ton. It was ...

IBM called a press conference under cloak-and-dagger terms to tout the fact that it has been named the market leader in combined tape and disk storage hardware in a new report by IDC, its first ...

IBM Softlayer Block Storage offers capacity and performance-optimised disk that can be provisioned in increments up to 12TB and 48,000 IOPS. Snapshots and replication are available, as is replication.