I never knew they made them tis big!

[pentium]

I was tipped off about this auction on ebay and I never knew they made a full-height drive that big. I would bid on it and pop it in my Crimson but they won't ship to canada.

[dood]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

5400 RPM... takes 45 seconds to fully spin-up :o

https://cdn.badcaps-static.com/pdfs/...3b173bd5c8.pdf

[Maxxarcade]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

Didn't they have a 9GB full height IDE some years ago too? I remember one being advertised at Tiger Direct for nearly $1k.

The biggest drive I ever had was the 43MB MFM drive that was in a TI-990 system from the late 70's. It has a belt drive, 115V ac motor, and used 5 or 6 8" platters.

How about this one?

[dood]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

I love the belt-drive! "Transfer rates are slowing, the belt must be slipping!"

The tolerances on those were huge... You had to keep the dust cover on during operation, of course, but notice the convenient latches for taking it off so you could oil the bearings and such. Cool!

[pentium]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

The belt drives were great too. In my mind it was one of the first non-disk pack drives that started to resemble a hard drive. The only thing is that THEY WEIGHED A TON!

"Transfer rates are slowing, the belt must be slipping!"

That has to be one of the most geekiest things I have ever heard.

[kc8adu]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

a friend bought a big boxfull(heavy) of the 47gb varient of those.$5 for the box.
hell even if they are junk the magnets and scrapmetal are worth more than $5!

[pentium]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

Lucky, I love full-height drives.

[Spacedye69]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

Looks about the size of the MFM in my ps/2. Mine has a whopping 70mb!

[yanz]

Re: I never knew they made them tis big!

So, hardisk was made that huge in the past... now i know...