IBM unleashed the world's first computer hard disk drive in 1956. It was bigger than a refrigerator. It weighed more than a ton.

Who invented the HDD?

Hard drives, also known as hard disk drives (HDDs) were a technology thought up by IBM- and they dominated the market for nearly 30 years. They discovered a need for this type of technology in 1953, and the first hard drive was invented and then patented in 1956 in IBM's San Jose, California laboratory.

When was the SSD invented?

The first version of SSDs were RAM-based invented by StorageTeK in 1978. Flash memory-based SSDs were introduced in 1989 by Western Digital.