What is the lowest capacity of a hard drive?

Answer 1

I don't know that anyone deliberately tries to have a small hard drive. The first hard drive, the IBM 350, was about 4 MB. Physically, though, it weighed about a ton and had to be moved with forklifts. I believe the IBM 1311, released later, may have had a lower capacity (it was physically the size of a washing machine).

The physically smallest conventionally used hard drives are called "Microdrives." They measure 1.7 by 1.2 by 0.2 inches, and are available in capacities ranging from 170 MB to 8 GB.

Answer 2

Size has two meanings when we're talking about hard drives, or any storage device for that matter. Common sizes in terms of storage space would be, 700GB to 1TB, but this figure is constantly changing. Common sizes in terms of physical size would be 2.5", and 3.5" for PATA and SATA standards.

Answer

The real answer is this is a moving target. You can buy a 1-2 Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) for $50-60 today, so 100GB would only be found on a very old computer. I don't think you can even buy a computer today with that small a drive; the closest is a netbook with a 160GB drive.

How much money do you have?

Today, 500 GB to 1000 GB should be enough for a PC, and they are reasonably priced in the $150 - $300 range depending on brand, etc.

Tomorrow, the capacities will go up and the $ price will remain the same or go down.

Answer 3

1mb

Answer 4

40 gb