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It’s fascinating to think that the first hard drive, IBM's 350 Disk Storage from 1956, weighed over a ton and held a mere 3.75 MB of data—enough for just one song by today’s standards. Fast forward to 1980, and Seagate’s ST-506 5 MB hard drive might have seemed groundbreaking at the time, but it would be laughable now. By 1991, IBM introduced a 1 GB drive, which was revolutionary then, though it came with quite a price tag. Fast forward to the 21st century, and we’ve entered the terabyte era, with Hitachi releasing a 1 TB drive in 2007, followed by Seagate's 18 TB in 2020. Most recently, Western Digital has pushed the boundaries further, unveiling a 26 TB drive in 2023. It's remarkable how storage technology has evolved from something needing an entire room to devices we can carry.