Ha i now hold the record for smallest Harddrive ever to apear on here!

Biohazard · 06-11-02, 05:03 PM

I was tking apart an old laptop the size of my desktop, lol and i took out the HDD and looked at for a few mins! well its useless cos its to old to plug to the ide system so im gonna mod it and as i thought that i looked the the top and it said get this (it bigger then my 60gig and heavier) well it said 60mb, LMAO its just soo funny to find a 60mb! i mean OLDY or wot its not just oldu its a classic and i have 2 more of them, wow 180mb that has no perpose wot so ever, well this is where my modding starts!

Cypher720 · 06-11-02, 05:54 PM

got a pic of it?!

DKYoda · 06-11-02, 08:15 PM

Who here remembers the sturdy ole' ST225's ?? hehe

Showin' my age ...

M00CH · 06-11-02, 08:26 PM

while i was doing a hardware course in school i was taking apart a old HDD to look at the platters. this harddrive was the size of a toaster and it was only 50 megs!.. i could not belive it..

DKYoda · 06-11-02, 08:31 PM

I used to maintain DataGeneral systems ..
The old Nova 4's had a 5 meg open air drive .. that weighed in at a little over 235 Lbs ...
And the system had a wopping 16 K of core memory !!
And the scary thing was it was running a 20 lane grocery store and never skipped a beat ..

Those were the dayz ....

JigPu · 06-12-02, 08:31 AM

I got you one better

20MB in my 8086.... And what's really amazing is that I simply CAN'T fill that sucker up!

I took my 386's 120MB HD apart, and I must say that though the first 5 minutes are cool, it get's kinda boring after that. I took a screwdriver and shoved the arm around while the computer was running (I'd only lose my precious Win 3.1 desktop

) and made the computer freeze. Still works like a charm today. I still don't see how the head is only barely off the suface.... Since it looked plenty far away to me!

JigPu

Mike360000 · 06-12-02, 08:38 AM

I remember the old 5 mb hard drives. And the 1st HD I had was a 20 mb HD in a Tandy Computer.

My order of HD evolution goes along like:
20mb, 40, 105, 120, 150, 170, 200, 212, 250, 512, 1gig, 5g, 13g, 20g, 30g, 40g, 60g. This inludes multiple HDs of the same number. All total I've probably had about 50 HDs of the above sizes and double that number for systems I have made for family and friends.

Also does anyone remember the old Winchester floppies?
I use to work with them.

Cheers,
Mike

CyprusRaven · 06-12-02, 12:36 PM

The first HD I installed (meaning it did not come with the computer) was a 10 MB hard drive in a ISA card format. I installed it on a 8088 AT&T computer. (yes 8088, not 8086). That was circa 1989-90, my sophmore year in college. I remember it as one of my biggest purchases ever... lol.

JaY_III · 06-12-02, 02:52 PM

I have seen some really old ones...
you know the 150RPM drives that have a belt spinning the platters... and its bigger than a Micro ATX case.

eXtraktor · 06-12-02, 04:08 PM

I have an old 10mb hard drive in a 386, it was a really old computer used in a small company selling pools. They only had customer records on it.

06-11-02, 05:03 PM	Thread Starter #1
Biohazard Disabled Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Spain, But I'm Danish!	Ha i now hold the record for smallest Harddrive ever to apear on here! I was tking apart an old laptop the size of my desktop, lol and i took out the HDD and looked at for a few mins! well its useless cos its to old to plug to the ide system so im gonna mod it and as i thought that i looked the the top and it said get this (it bigger then my 60gig and heavier) well it said 60mb, LMAO its just soo funny to find a 60mb! i mean OLDY or wot its not just oldu its a classic and i have 2 more of them, wow 180mb that has no perpose wot so ever, well this is where my modding starts!
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M00CH Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: newfoundland	while i was doing a hardware course in school i was taking apart a old HDD to look at the platters. this harddrive was the size of a toaster and it was only 50 megs!.. i could not belive it.. __________________ ASUS corei5 m430 laptop 4gigs ram, 320HDD 1gig ATI radeon 5400 blue-ray/DVD, 17inch HD display AMD x3 720 $ cores unlocked 8 gig ram evga gts 450 1gig 24in lcd monitor
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JigPu Inactive Pokémon Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Vancouver, WA	I got you one better 20MB in my 8086.... And what's really amazing is that I simply CAN'T fill that sucker up! I took my 386's 120MB HD apart, and I must say that though the first 5 minutes are cool, it get's kinda boring after that. I took a screwdriver and shoved the arm around while the computer was running (I'd only lose my precious Win 3.1 desktop ) and made the computer freeze. Still works like a charm today. I still don't see how the head is only barely off the suface.... Since it looked plenty far away to me! JigPu __________________ .... ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 .... Intel Core i5 2500 ........................ 4 thread ...... 3300 MHz ......... -0.125 V 2x ASUS GTX 560 Ti ............................... 1 GiB ....... 830 MHz ...... 2004 MHz .... G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage ............. 8 GiB ..... 1600 MHz ............ 1.25 V .... OCZ Vertex 3 ................................. 120 GB ............. nilfs2 ..... Arch Linux .... Kingwin LZP-550 .............................. 550 W ........ 94% Eff. ....... 80+ Plat .... Nocuta NH-D14 ................................ 20 dB ..... 0.35 C°/W ................ 7 V "In order to combat power supply concerns, Nvidia has declared that G80 will be the first graphics card in the world to run entirely off of the souls of dead babies. This will make running the G80 much cheaper for the average end user." "GeForce 8 Series." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 7 Aug 2006, 20:59 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 8 Aug 2006.
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06-12-02, 08:38 AM	#7
Mike360000 Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stokesdale, North Carolina	I remember the old 5 mb hard drives. And the 1st HD I had was a 20 mb HD in a Tandy Computer. My order of HD evolution goes along like: 20mb, 40, 105, 120, 150, 170, 200, 212, 250, 512, 1gig, 5g, 13g, 20g, 30g, 40g, 60g. This inludes multiple HDs of the same number. All total I've probably had about 50 HDs of the above sizes and double that number for systems I have made for family and friends. Also does anyone remember the old Winchester floppies? I use to work with them. Cheers, Mike
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CyprusRaven New Member Join Date: Jun 2002	Brings back memories The first HD I installed (meaning it did not come with the computer) was a 10 MB hard drive in a ISA card format. I installed it on a 8088 AT&T computer. (yes 8088, not 8086). That was circa 1989-90, my sophmore year in college. I remember it as one of my biggest purchases ever... lol.
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JaY_III Senior of BX Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Vancouver	I have seen some really old ones... you know the 150RPM drives that have a belt spinning the platters... and its bigger than a Micro ATX case.
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