This is the largest consumer hard drive on the market ... It’s basically a Western Digital drive inside of a housing with a USB 3.0 port on it. It’s a full-sized desktop drive inside, so ...

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So it's helpful to occasionally be reminded. This is a picture of an IBM hard drive being loaded onto an airplane in 1956. According to @HistoricalPics, which tweeted the picture, it's a 5 mega ...