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Hard Disk Drive
Developer Rey Johnson's team at IBM
Publisher Various
Systems Various
Released December 24, 1954
Added to Museum 250GB WD HDD: January 23, 2012
20MB Seagate HDD: May 27, 2020

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, fixed disk, or hard drive, is an electro-mechanical data storage device.

The hard disk drive was invented by Rey Johnson's team at IBM and was released on December 24, 1954.