On 20 Jan 2006, at 09:02, 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
Bloomin' eck I've got a slagload (excuse the language) of those, all
pulled from LC machines of various antiquity. I also have a fair few
80MBs also. SCSI of course.
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.
Blimey. **__ANOTHER__** ex-Amigan.
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!
Yes, and at the age they are these days the spindles are very very
noisy on a lot of them.
They're still around here somewhere...I don't like throwing things
away :-)
Ditto. Hence why I have a large box full of SCSI ProDrives.... :D
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