Harddisk You Might Have Never Seen

	Harddisk You Might Have Never Seen
	Discussion by jedipi with 27 Replies. Last Update: July 27, 2008, 7:09 am (View Latest)	Page 1 of 2 pages.

jedipi

I just found some harddisk pic in a japaness webside.
they are so big (size, but not capacity)...

1983, NEC, 14inch, KU800
3620rpm ，2.7GB

NEC, 「JS4380(PATTY) 1982, 400MB/3,000rpm

「F6421(Eagle1)」10/1981, 10.5inch, 446MB 3,600rpm

「JS470(Gemmy), 9/1987, 2,200MB/3,000rpm

The first 2.5inch HDD「PrairieTek 220」, 21.3MB/3,307rpm

Sun Apr 3, 2005 Reply New Discussion

shahidiimran

well, would love to have these hard disks in my pc, but what will be the size of my cuty laptop than????

Sun Apr 3, 2005 Reply New Discussion

I want to know if 3620rpm on the first one is the rotation speed of the outer cylinder or the inner cylinder or an avergae or something. Because if it's the outer cylinder, that's one slow hard drive.

Sun Apr 3, 2005 Reply New Discussion

spacewaste

lol....Man...Those are some OLD ass hard drives.

Thank god I'm not from china in the 1980's

Sun Apr 3, 2005 Reply New Discussion

rapco

hummmm.....

That0s really frustating.... we keep complaining because of the space.. the capacity... and people (not too many years ago) adapted themselves to suing those monstrous thing without complains... doing the best with what they had....

WHY ARE WE SO HARD TO PLEASE!!!

Sun Apr 3, 2005 Reply New Discussion

jipman

Who said they didn't complained

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People are always looking for the best and they want the best, that's our nature

Wed Apr 6, 2005 Reply New Discussion

finaldesign

It's not just that they are from china, It's the thing that you in 1980's could never buy one. They were sooo expencive then...

Thu Apr 7, 2005 Reply New Discussion

redsox58

How big are those in reality? Its hard to get a good idea of scale in those pictures.

Thu Apr 7, 2005 Reply New Discussion

JimBeam

Nice find man... that's amazing. Look how far we've come in 20 odd years. Could you imagine trying to install one of them babies in your PC? Hehehe, you would need a crane. And back then they probably would never have imagined having the hard drive capacity we have these days in such a small size.

Thu Apr 7, 2005 Reply New Discussion

darkool

Its Beautifull , i love it its like the old cars , an antique , its a PUNTIAC but in computers LOL, and very fast to :rolleyes:

where can i buy one of those ? Maybe they cost lost of money ...

cheers

Wed Apr 13, 2005 Reply New Discussion

harriko

wow i didnt know they have hard disks as big as them before! they are massive compared to these days aint they?! now they are just about the size of your palm giving you about 300 gigabytes now!

did you take the pictures from a computer history museum in japan? i never knew that any exsisted. i probably thought ifs its rubbish its gone in the bin or partially recyclyed!

Sat Apr 16, 2005 Reply New Discussion

rapco

Well, in the past few days (and this is going to sound ignorant) i saw a laptop HD.. and, on the contrary to these posted here... THEY'RE WAYYYYYYY TOO SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pc's should use this HD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tue Jun 21, 2005 Reply New Discussion

Sarah81

Are you sure these aren't motorcycle engines? *grins* Seriously, I wonder how many MP3s I could get on one of those ... and my next question after that would be, "How badly would I hurt myself when I had to move that thing out of my apartment at the end of the semester?" Heh.

Sun Jan 22, 2006 Reply New Discussion