Berlin, 24 August 2006 – This is the year that the hard disk will be marking its jubilee. 50 years ago the first hard disk came on the market. In 1956 the first generation of magnetic mass storage media arrived, capable of storing five megabytes and costing 50,000 dollars. Nowadays small devices storing 5 gigabytes, a thousand times as much, can be bought for very little. Storage capability has increased vastly, and several hundred gigabytes are almost commonplace. (more…)
