February 27, 200818 yr Pretty extreme ... but it happens. http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=622101
February 27, 200818 yr Remember... there are only two types of hard-disks in the world... No, not IDE and SATA..... The two types are: Those hard-disks that have already crashed... And those that have not-yet crashed... (it is just a matter of time till they do) I'm going to date myself here... but I serviced hard-disk drives in the days when the platter assembly was removable, the disk enclosure was the size of a washing machine, and the heads individually replaceable. The disk platters were about 14 inches in diameter and stacked about 1/2 inch apart. When we had a disk crash it was a huge task to clean all the dust and aluminum platter shavings from the unit before replacing the heads, re-aligning them, and putting the unit back into service with a new set of platters. One mistake and you were doing it all over again within minutes of spinning everything up. ouch... Oh yeah, it was not a gigabyte drive either... more like megabytes... but it could still grind disks to powder easily since it had a huge motor. (we did have a pair of drives, with mirrored data, so in effect, raid1... something to be said about raid arrays, even back then) Joe L.
February 27, 200818 yr hard-disk drives in the days when the platter assembly was removable, the disk enclosure was the size of a washing machine, and the heads individually replaceable. The disk platters were about 14 inches in diameter and stacked about 1/2 inch apart. I remember those days! And when the 3380s were getting old they would get that high pitched jey engine scream and you knew it was only a matter of time before we were calling a CE.
February 27, 200818 yr Look, it's already been listed on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Quantum-FireBall-CR-8.4-Gig-EIDE-HD_W0QQitemZ250219526856QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0802251071a20614 ;D These drives were circa 1998/1999. 8.4G! Handly enough to store ONE DVD movie. My first hard disk was a Tecmar 5MB drive on an original IBM PC with 64K memory and DOS 1.1. To install the hard drive, you had to patch the OS (command.com) and it recognized the drive as a 3rd floppy. No subdirectories! I think my company spent like $5,000 on that machine. Oh, the good old days.
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