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In A Decade, Disk Is Dead For Tier One Storage

August 17, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ton. …

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