The first one-gigabyte hard drive weighed over two hundred and fifty kilograms.
Why it is true
Launched by IBM in nineteen eighty, the model thirty-three eighty was the size of a refrigerator and required complex cooling systems to handle its magnetic disks.
Source: Hardware Engineering
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