Old Quantum Bigfoot Hard Drives Spin Up In Stereo

[DoctorMeh]

I remember that sound. Wow, I had one of these.

[uzaiyaro]

At least in my room, the best sounding hard drives are the ones that don't make noise. :-)

[apctech1]

i own 5 of them all new found in a box of old computer stuff from a shop that went under

[mastermind48451]

i remember having that conversation with you years ago when we both had a bigfoot drive lol

[tommee10533]

My first hard drive believe or not was 40 MB I think was made by Seagate. Yes I actually thaught the same about filling that.

[Maxxarcade]

@tommee10533 I had one for my first hard drive too. Was it the 43MB one that was gold in color and kind of tall?

[MrComputerfan]

@Maxxarcade These are very cool! I have two CYs and one normal.

[THEtechknight]

whats sad, is i am using around 4 or 5tb of nothing but videos, movie backups, ISO backups, etc.

[LellePrinter82]

I remember these drives, I used a 2gb bigfoot drive long time ago. Now I use it as a doorstop for my balcony door. :)

[bigdwiz]

I've learned over the years to never say again "I'll never fill that hard drive". Taking HD video and attempting to store it on hard drives can easily fill up even the biggest drive in no time at all!

[Maxxarcade]

@bigdwiz Yep, that's my situation as well. I still think it's funny when everyone asks me why I need a 3.7TB file server. I don't exactly store the only copy of each video on Youtube. Keeping each raw clip, along with the final edited video really adds up quick. Plus the general data backups.

[james42519]

i have one but don't think it works.

[Aussie50]

wow!, never seen them in that high capacity with the black powdercoating!. I have a pair of the old 2.1's with the natural alloy casings here now!, very cool old drives.

[wildbilltexas]

I said the same thing when I installed a 1 gig WD drive back in 1998. I never owned a Quantum hard drive so i dont know how reliable they were compared to WD, Seagate,Maxtor, Hatachi etc.

[robot797]

i have an 1998 3d card if you want it you can buy it

it is an oldckook card

[matmroy]

Quantum put out some good drives in the day.

[psychoclown420]

yeah, my step brother got an old 90 something compaq, and it had one of those in it.. unfortunately, it was failing so he took it out and destroyed it.. dumbass

[rmx77]

i had a 12gb model but it was pretty slow but it worked ok. i wish i knew where mine is or maybe i gave it up i hope i still have it if not i got to get another one

[ninelivesnails]

A 6gb bigfoot came in my IBM Aptiva I bought new back in 1998. Its amazing how much I did with just 6gb. Still have the Aptiva, it still works and boots up just fine.

[Maxxarcade]

@ninelivesnails OMG I forgot about those Aptivas! A friend of mine had one with a Cyrix CPU. I remember playing Need For Speed 2 on it.

[Jcc3279]

Do you remember Packard Bell Computers I have a old Legend 422cdt still use it to play my DOS Shooter games on it I still have a copy of Duke Nukem 3d on this computer.

I know packard bell's were garbage machines and still are but it did what I needed it to.

Good old Pentium 133mhz.

it has 61mb of ram.

[Maxxarcade]

@Jcc3279 Yep, I knew a few people that had the 486 and Pentium Packard Bells.

[Aeduo]

@ninelivesnails I had an Aptiva from about 1999 or 2000. I am considerably less nostalgic for it. It was a piece of crap from the start. I think the motherboard was really really cheap and probably faulty. It performed much much slower than it should have based on the CPU (AMD k6-2 500Mhz) and video card (nvidia TNT2 M64). Couldn't even do Quake 2 at a decent frame rate in opengl mode. I think Aptivas were known to be really cheap crap, but that was the market around 2000.

[TheMr6507]

My first computer had an IBM 10 gig in it. Had some kind of bad sector or something. Stored and retrieved memory fine, but you could never defrag it. I still put it in my computers until my most recent desktop, which had sata. :(

[DrOrphious79]

I have a 10g one of those doing nothing in a drawer.

my 1st HDD was 100Mb, i thought it was massive.

[uxwbill]

Bigfeets!

I never saw Bigfoot drives with a black outer casing. They did seem to be more reliable than the Fireball drives at the time. I wonder if Maxtor ever rebranded these like they did some of the last Fireball 3.5" series?

[JoshVanSlam1]

That sound brings back so many memories! It's also very calming.

[BlueFoxTV]

i had a 4 GB version. i still have files that are orignaly from it.

[IamFat32]

damn, an 80GB maxtor just failed on me and here are two drives much older. I remember thinking I'd never fill my 400 MB connor SCSI drive, that damn thing actually still works. I just don't have a SCSI controller anymore.

[Thetruehypersonic]

Satisfying 'donk' there

[WinbookXL3]

I remember i taught i will never fill up a 300mb hdd way back when we had big floppies!

[wowtorreon]

I used to sell those at CompUSA! Even with my employee discount I couldn't afford it.

[pcgod8]

I remember thinking I'd never fill up my 120 MB (yes, that's right, MB) drive. I don't think I lasted a year before I filled it completely. Then I got my 1.2 GB drive and I thought that was HUGE. These days I'm a little wiser, I have a 2 TB drive and I know I'm going to fill it up. In fact, I'm just over half way there now.

[Maxxarcade]

@pcgod8 The hard drive in my 286 was a 43MB Seagate, though I've owned drives as small as 5MB.

[pcgod8]

@Maxxarcade I had one that was 11 MB (I don't think the BIOS supported it properly) but I had no delusions about filling that one up.

I remember when all of my stuff was on 3.5" and 5.25" floppies and I didn't even have a hard drive. I thought I was so cool.

Sometimes I miss those days. Then I remember having to deal with jumpers, IRQ settings, operating systems that had no concept of plug-and-play and I'm suddenly very glad those days are gone.

[familyguy9877]

How many gb's are they?

[Maxxarcade]

@familyguy9877 They are 9.1GB.

[iToasterman]

@Maxxarcade i had a 4gb one

[QuadroNVS]

classic sound , it always sounds like a head crash on those old HDDs

[gmcnewlook]

lol just like 512mb was more than enough memory 10 years ago

[fedorauser1003]

@gmcnewlook

And to think that 64K of RAM was more than enough for everybody. That, according to Bill Gates in 1981.

LOL!

[Orcinus24x5]

@fedorauser1003 actually, it was 640K, not 64K, and Bill Gates never said it.

[fedorauser1003]

@Orcinus24x5

OMG...it was like I was never around in those days. It was 64K then it majestically became 640K later. So... who said it then?

Of course the tech media back then could be like what it is today...half truths.

[sonic3243]

@gmcnewlook it's still enough RAM today. Average users can get by with 256-512MB RAM with no problem.

[gmcnewlook]

@sonic3243 somewhat true, though 1gb is good if you want if you want vista or 7 to run decent, i currently have 4gb of ram in my laptop

[WinbookXL3]

Sweet!

[NightWolfEditing]

Hmmm. Sounds wierd...

[tony10980]

I have one of those! It was in the old computer my grandfather gave me, it had Windows 95 and it booted up so slow... To bad it died second time I turned it on, it would have been cool to have a working one.