By 1981, Apple introduced its first hard drive known as the "ProFile" which first offered 5MB of storage for $3,499 and was small enough to sit on top of the Apple II, III and Lisa computers.

1980 - Seagate introduced a competing drive to IBM. By this point, the 5MB had shrunk in size to just a 5.25-inch hard disk. It cost $4,300 (in today's dollars). 1983 - Rodime released the first 3 ...

The first commercial hard disk drive was introduced in 1956 ... This groundbreaking drive offered 5MB of storage at $10,000 per MB. At the time, customers would pay over $3,200 per month to ...