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Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

In the era of digital dominance, our computers serve as repositories for a vast array of files, applications and data. Efficient storage management is crucial for maintaining a well-functioning system ...

The IT industry is always striving to overcome bottlenecks, and one of the biggest is input/output (I/O). Whether it is memory bandwidth, network bandwidth or how quickly a high-resolution screen can ...

Weighing in at more than a ton and storing 5MB of data, the IBM 305 RAMAC was the first supercomputer with a hard disk drive (HDD). Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random ...

For people in need of extra space for their belongings, storage companies offer the opportunity to stow a wide array of items in a rental unit. The units vary significantly — from indoor units as ...

The logical unit number (LUN) has been a bedrock concept in storage for decades. It’s the fundamental “soft” way in which physical media is partitioned in block access storage. But recent times have ...