The difference is 59 years and Moore's law. Specifically the size of transistors getting much much much smaller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Also the old drives were spinning disks (that's why they got the name "drives") and recorded information on a magnetic surface, it needed motors and everything. That 128G pen drive is just a chip or two, no moving parts at all.
Back in 1957, 5MB would have be considered a huge amount of storage.
Comparing 1957 to 2017 the drive will be considered has about 128Gb
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It would have been considered probably more like a Petabyte. I'm sure it was one of the largest drives made at the time.
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