What is the smallest and largest single HDs you own?

[Zetr0]

okies...

• 3.5" HDD's
  
  • Largest Seagate 400MB SATA2
  • Smallest 40mb Western Digital
  
  2.5" HDD's
  
  • Largest 200GB IBM/Hitachi
  • Smallest 512mb IBM/Hitachi
  
  Oversized
  
  • Largest Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" 12GB
  • Smallest IBM 5.25 8MB - have two of these old puppies

and thats about it

[Tiago]

2.5" HDD's
Largest 80GB (pc laptop) , 4GB (Amiga)
Smallest 200mb (Amiga)


3.5" HDD's
Largest 40GB (PC)
Smallest 256 mb IBM

In Work (bank)
we have 6 HDs of 500GB !!!! (PC)


and some more HDs for the IBM S390 .... (mainframe)
and some more backup tapes, last time i saw the numbers we have + 10.000 backup tapes of 8GB....(mainframe)

of course none of these is mine... but i can use them

[Sharingan]

Smallest: 120MB internal HDD that came with my Amiga 1200.

Largest: 500GB Western Digital external HDD.

I'm looking forward to what Solid State technology can offer, too. What's always bothered me about hard drives is the noise, heat production and the fact that you can't really trust them for long-term use.

[Harrison]

okies...

• 3.5" HDD's
  • Largest Seagate 400MB SATA2
  • Smallest 40mb Western Digital
  2.5" HDD's
  • Largest 200GB IBM/Hitachi
  • Smallest 512mb IBM/Hitachi
  Oversized
  • Largest Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" 12MB
  • Smallest IBM 5.25 8MB - have two of these old puppies

and thats about it

12MB? That's small for a bigfoot drive!

I like the "Oversized" classification!

I've also got one of those huge Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" drives. When I ordered a pre-built machine in 1998 I was quite surprised to see such a huge drive filling one of the 5.25" drive bays up. Up to that point I had only seen 3.5" drives. It had a very large (for the time) 12GB though, which was massive. It took me quite some time to fill it up back then. These days I couldn't even fit my OS install on it.

And that Bigfoot drive still worked perfectly. Do those 5.25" drivers have any advantages over smaller units? Are they more reliable?

[Zetr0]

@Harrison

ooops.... it was ment to be 12GB LMAO.... i shall edit it now....


from what i remember the Bigfoot boasted better data-integrity for its dual spin speeds (well atleast the SCSI modules)

also i found them damn fast back in the day

[Puni/Void]

The smallest HD I've owned was one on 80MB. I used this in my Amiga 1200 many years ago and I remember feeling that I had quite a lot of space available. It was a nice HD and it served me well, but I needed something bigger after a while. Then went ahead and got a 3.5 on 1.2GB. Ran out of space again, and bought one on 6.7GB for the 1200. That was in 1998-99, and it had a huge storage capacity for that time.

The biggest HD is one of those I use now, and it's on 250GB. Guess I'll have to invest in a bigger one in the coming future.

[Stephen Coates]

Smallest one is a 50MB Quantum SCSI for the A500+. Biggest is a 120GB Maxtor IDE drive in the PC.

[burns flipper]

I have an 80mb hard disk, neevr used, which I bought on Amibench 11 years ago. My plan was to get Shapeshifter working so I could play the Mac version of Broken Sword on my A1200T, but I never got around to it.

I have a 1TB drive which I got brand new for £50 off eBay last year, which I store the backup copies of all our photo's on (as well as dvdr's and online with adrive).

Amazing, 3 years since this thread started and I'm saying I bought a 1TB drive brand new for £50. Technology, eh?

[Harrison]

HDD prices sure do keep dropping quickly. And now the 3TB drives are available, 2TB and smaller drives are really starting to drop.

The largest HDDs I've got are 2TB Samsung Spinpoint drives. Very quiet, and very fast. The eco green 5200RPM specs are quite misleading on them because their technology doesn't make them appear any slower that F1 7200 drives.

The smallest drive I've still got is actually smaller than I mentioned in the original post. 120MB 3.5" IDE drive that originally came with my A4000 when it was new. since I've had the A4000 it was replaced straight way with a 1.3GB drive and has sat in a box ever since not doing much. I actually had it back when we started this thread, but had forgotten all about it until I came across it recently.

I've since sold the Archos 330MB drive I originally mentioned. Sold to a collector in German for £60.