And you’re now ready to install your SSD and experience a new level of speed and efficiency. You know the advantages of a Solid State Drive over a mechanical hard disc drive and you know there is no other piece of hardware that will give you as much additional performance as an SSD. “Had the automobile developed at a pace equal to that of the computer during the past twenty years, a Rolls Royce would now cost less than $3.00, get 3 million miles per gallon, deliver enough power to drive the Queen Elizabeth 2, and six of them would fit on the head of a pin.” If it wasn’t for Big Blue’s behemoth of the Fifties, you wouldn’t be reading this blog on a nifty little computer that you’ll use today to help consume a couple dozen gigabytes of information.Ĭomputer scientist Christopher Evans summed it up nicely years ago when he said:
The IBM 350’s status as the jaw-dropping progenitor of today’s hard drive is undisputed. Either way, the lesson here is simple: respect. Now 4.4MB was a long time ago-or 131,000-plus megabytes happened awfully fast. 3” x 4” and weighs in at 8 ounces, which is about the size of the average smart phone. In physical size, there’s not a lot to ponder. The smallest capacity M3 offers 128 gigabytes of storage-that’s the equivalent of 131,072 megabytes, or nearly 30,000 IBM 350s. The Plextor M3 starts at $199.99 (no rental available).
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For example, take the new Plextor M3 Series Solid State Drive which is very fast and very reliable. Now, let’s fast forward and take a quick look at one of the new solid state hard drives. Oh, and one more detail: the rental charge for the 305 RAMAC was a hefty $3,200 a month. The 305 system consisted of the following: the IBM 305 Processing Unit, the IBM 370 Printer (an 80-position serial-output printer), the IBM 323 Card Punch (providing for 80 columns of output punching), the IBM 380 Console (containing card feed, typewriter, keyboard and indicator lights and control keys), the IBM 340 Power Supply (supplying power for all components except the motors in the 350 disk storage unit), a utility table adjacent to the console, and, of course, the IBM 350 with 4.4 megabytes of storage. The 350 was actually a key part of the IBM 305 RAMAC system, which was-according to IBM-“a flexible, electronic, general purpose data processing machine that enabled businesses to record transactions as they occurred.” That’s right - as in real-time.
In fact, it occupied the space of two refrigerators and weighed over a ton. I mean the 350 wasn’t a laptop or even a desktop. And there was a lot to ponder in sheer bulk alone. There were a lot of very serious engineers and Mad Men in button-down shirts standing around shaking their heads, totally overwhelmed, pondering this technical breakthrough. It contained fifty 24-inch disks that spun at 1200 RPM and could claim 4.4MB of storage. The IBM 350 has the distinction of being the first modern hard drive. It was in 1956 that IBM developed something called the IBM 350. To get a perspective on digital storage let’s go back to the mid 50’s.
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