do you mind posting pictures of this beast of a hard disk? it sounds quite interesting to look at. Myself being a PC person, the only 5.25" drives I knew of were the "Maxtor Bigfoot" drives which were beasts to me.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, trag<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 7, 11:28 pm, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Jun 7, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >> >> > 0.7" is "half height" for 3.5" drives. I've seen several 3.5" SCSI >> > drives over 1.4" tall. >> >> Full height 3.5" drives are 1-5/8" tall, which just happens to be 1/2 >> of the height of a full-height 5.25" drive. > > Full height 5.25" drives are 3.3" tall. This number may be a little > easier to remember. Once you remember 3.3" you can calculate that > half-height 5.25" = full height 3.5" = 1.65". They used to call 1" > tall 3.5" drives "low profile" IIRC. > > Incidentally, 3.3" is the height of two standard CD-ROM or DVD > drives. There was a full height 9 GB Seagate SCSI drive, ST410800, > which was sold at extremely low prices (~$35 - $50) back in (I think) > the late 90s. Some of the sellers weren't too careful about > disclosing that the thing was a full height 5.25" drive. > > When the 410800 was released it was quite a bargain. It sold for > around $5000 at a time when other drives cost about $1000/GB and it > was soon available for $3000. It sounds a bit like an agitating > washing machine when seeking, but it runs fairly cool and seems to be > very reliable. Mine is still working... > > Jeff Walther > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
