50 years of hard disk drive innovation

14.09.2006

Meanwhile, Hoagland wants to turn the original IBM lab into a museum and is heading up a project to restore a RAMAC. He said he hopes to demonstrate this week that it can still read 50-year-old data. Not that users writing data to hard disks today should expect to be able to read it in 2056. "No responsible person running a data center is going to trust data on hard drives forever," Butler said.