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In addition to disk storage, IBM also pioneered tape drives. In 1952, IBM had produced the first reel-to-reel half-inch tape drive--the industry standard until 1984.
Hard Drives
Since the early 1950s disk drives have shrunk significantly in size and increased in capacity by more than 5,000 times. The basic RAMAC approach to storage (a rotating magnetic disk with a phonograph-like head accessing the data) remains the same to this day.
Portable Devices
The only major market where other form factors hold sway over 3.5" is that for laptops and other portable devices, where the reduced size of 2.5" and smaller form factors is important.
Storage Numbers
One MB [Megabyte] is one million bytes, 1,000 MB make one GB [Gigabyte], 1,000 GBs make one TB [Terabyte], 1,000 TB make one PB [Petabyte], 1,000 PBs make one EB [Exabyte], 1,000 EBs make one ZB
Storage Numbers
One Zettabyte can store 500 quadrillion pages of text ... thus a YottaByte equals: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)