Vintage Seagate Elite ScSi 23-Platter Hard drive manufactured I believe in 1997. This disc drive holds about 29 gigabytes unformatted, and 23 Gigabytes Formatted.
Wow, that's really neat! Too bad they never made drives like this for the IDE or SATA interfaces lol. In all honesty, unless you can find a SCSI card really cheap, I wouldn't bother putting the money out for one - you've more than likely destroyed the drive by opening it.
@averyaccordion Are you sure? That looks like a large voice coil, but I cant really tell for sure. I dont think that they could achieve that data density with stepper motors if it were 25 GB. And plus he pointed out the rare earth magnets, which stepper motor drives didn't have/require
If hard disks were like that (multiplied my Samsung Spinpoint 560G) it would be 12.353515625 TB
bpmagruder 1 week ago
Wow, that's really neat! Too bad they never made drives like this for the IDE or SATA interfaces lol. In all honesty, unless you can find a SCSI card really cheap, I wouldn't bother putting the money out for one - you've more than likely destroyed the drive by opening it.
themaritimeman 3 months ago
That looks awesome. Hdd beauty
TheCheesyProductions 5 months ago
that would make out a pretty good tesla-turbine
TheAluminiumklorid 6 months ago
WOW, A WHOPPING 29 GIGABYTES!!!
hahaha, they should bring these back, but with today's technology... the world's first 20 TB hard drive!!
LOL
cheetawolf 6 months ago
holy shit thats cool i want one!!!
bigdady2700 6 months ago
@FACP07 I know... Its amazing to think it cost $1200 while i can get a 3 TB WD external for 80 bucks at costco :)
averyaccordion 6 months ago
@averyaccordion IKR, I ended up reading the manual cover-to-cover, it was actually really interesting!
FACP07 7 months ago
@FACP07 I see now. I read the manual. It turnes out its like one of the first ones....
averyaccordion 7 months ago
@averyaccordion Are you sure? That looks like a large voice coil, but I cant really tell for sure. I dont think that they could achieve that data density with stepper motors if it were 25 GB. And plus he pointed out the rare earth magnets, which stepper motor drives didn't have/require
FACP07 7 months ago