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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

IBM's FlashSystem C200 aims to replace HDDs with high-capacity flash storage It delivers 1.1PB raw capacity, 2.3PB effective, with 200,000 IOPS performance This flash option is optimized for ...

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. ... originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a medium for loading microcode into the System/370 mainframe during the booting ...

IBM's latest advance in high-level data storage shows Tucson is still an important center of innovation after more than 40 years.

IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used.