![Left photo: a 5MB hard drive in 1956 that companies couldn't purchase...but could lease storage on for $28k/mo. Right photo: Two 32GB thumb drives I bought for $12 a piece. : r/interestingasfuck Left photo: a 5MB hard drive in 1956 that companies couldn't purchase...but could lease storage on for $28k/mo. Right photo: Two 32GB thumb drives I bought for $12 a piece. : r/interestingasfuck](https://preview.redd.it/t9jgnpne3em21.png?auto=webp&s=514b01ebbb19836aa8bae8055264182c2241dadb)
Left photo: a 5MB hard drive in 1956 that companies couldn't purchase...but could lease storage on for $28k/mo. Right photo: Two 32GB thumb drives I bought for $12 a piece. : r/interestingasfuck
![Fotografia zilei: un hard-disk IBM de 5 MB cu o greutate de o tonă este încărcat într-un avion, în 1956 Fotografia zilei: un hard-disk IBM de 5 MB cu o greutate de o tonă este încărcat într-un avion, în 1956](http://storage0.dms.mpinteractiv.ro/media/401/781/10368/11852156/4/hard.jpg)
Fotografia zilei: un hard-disk IBM de 5 MB cu o greutate de o tonă este încărcat într-un avion, în 1956
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