IBM's first hard drive, in 1956, weighed about a tonne and stored 5 megabytes.
Why it is true
The IBM 305 RAMAC, from 1956, was the first computer with a hard drive. The drive weighed about a tonne and stored only 5 megabytes. Today, a memory card the size of a fingernail holds thousands of times more data.
Source: IBM
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