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I think the bearing is dead on that one.

i have a 4 gig with a black bezel

cp6745c 3 months ago

Talk about the blind leading the blind in this thread. LOL.

This bigfoot is a plain ide ata/33 drive, released mid-late 90s. It shares no components with RLL/MFM drives other then a 40pin edge connector on the drive controller. This drive would be 1/5th the thickness, and weighs what seems like 20 lbs less. And worst part, is these drives were total junk. They are the reason you don't see quantum drives anymore...

waytostoned 8 months ago

Yours has noisy bearings as well.

DragonFlyback256 1 year ago

i have cy

ChromeSGU 1 year ago

i just picked one of these up in a auction box lot for five bucks,,, got it,,another hardrive,,,and about 4 laptop hardrives ,AND a small stack of blank CDRs AND a letter holder in that box!

Dreambro1 1 year ago

i have a 20mb 5.25 hard disk from segate its a st-225 and it sounds like a sports car reeving to shit when you turn it on it makes the case shake until it gets up to speed

fergoway2go 1 year ago

@fergoway2go vid please!

danwat1234 1 year ago

@danwat1234 no camera ): sorry

fergoway2go 1 year ago

@xAmRDeUcEx the platter motor i think is .. but not the acuator .. that is a magnet thing

danwat1234 2 years ago

I have the 19.2 GB version of that. Spins at 4000 RPM. And I thought mine was slow...

PivotMasterD1 2 years ago

lol so do i in black but mines 5200rpm

ipullstuffapart 2 years ago

I've got something 5x taller than that (same footprint) but 15 years older, and 1/100000th the size: An MFM Winchester (seagate) 17 Mb (0.017 gig) hard disk. Let me tell you, the platters are made of ceramic(glass?) and are each about 4mm thick. Additionally, if you threw this at someone, it would severely injure them = HEAVY!

Jed118 3 years ago

I also have a standard 5.25 bay hard drive, full size and thickness. It's 40 MB though and I have no idea how to connect it - the standard is dead. :P

MrTwisT007 2 years ago

@MrTwisT007 It's probably an SCSI interface, it's not dead, it's mostly used in servers. But I doubt that drive will be recognized on new computers, so I guess it's dead, unless you got a computer running DOS. :)

ViperEye89 1 year ago

@ViperEye89 Oh no, it's definitely not scsi. It's something aaaancient.

MrTwisT007 1 year ago

@MrTwisT007 maybe it's MFM then, that's the only totally dead hard drive format I can think of, you can get controller cards for them on ebay, you just need a free ISA slot on an old computer, installation would be a pain in the ass though because I doubt it's plug and play, lol.

ViperEye89 1 year ago

@ViperEye89 Yes! That's the one :) To be honest, the drive is so old I doubt it'll even work. I don't have an ancient mobo to even try it on, so I'm not willing to do anything with it except to just show it off saying "look at this fossil" XD

MrTwisT007 1 year ago

Winchester .. sounds like a company that makes power tools! Or a type of tree!

danwat1234 2 years ago

i still actually still own one of these and it still works

sparky1442 3 years ago

:D!

ahh I used to have one of these! and when i filled it up with 'pie - rate d stuff' i thought i was the shit lol.

Ahh how far we've come =p

produKtNZ 3 years ago

I love that old hard disk sound :D

tombell12 3 years ago

my brother's old PC have a Quantum Fireball 20 GB hard drive from 2001. And it's working very well! back in 2001 it had Windows Me, in 2004 somebody installed Win 98 and in January I installed Windows XP Pro ;)

intelinside1990 3 years ago