On 20 Jan 2006, at 9:02 AM, Neil Hughes wrote:
On 19/1/06 19:08, Mark Benson wrote:
My oldest hard disk is a 5MB (yes MB!!) Seagate 5.25" 1" height
drive. Runs fine - sounds like a small jet and needs manually
parking, but it's still going after 20 years!
I can't beat that, but I do have a couple of 40MB Quantum ProDrives
that I bought for my Amiga 500+ back in...er...94 I think. 2.5MB/s
drive transfer speed, 3MB/s off the enormous 8KB buffer, and a nice
clunking sound whenever they spun down. I put one in my B&W a few
years ago to hold my web browser caches, but the thing was so slow
to spin up it actually seemed to be quicker to not use a cache at all!
They're still around here somewhere...I don't like throwing things
away :-)
Neil
I had a 50MB SCSI drive in an external unit that connected up to the
left of my A500 (Upgraded to 1MB chipram!). That was cool, but even
the cheapo 2.5" drive I put in the A1200 I got a couple of years
later was faster... It seems quite strange thinking back to those
days that I am at this moment watching 6 gigabytes of iLife '06
filling my poor, defenseless hard drive :D
Jason Mayfield-Lewis
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