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To: algore

Remember the days of the mighty 20 MB HDD?


4 posted on 10/12/2026 10:20:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of the Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Seagate 225 was the standard desktop workhorse.

I had its big brother, the Seagate 251 (40 MB)

The Seagate 238 was the RLL hardware compression version of the 225(up to 30 MB)

I hated configuring MFM hard drive controllers. (had to run debug in DOS).

When I could afford SCSI, I ran to it.


5 posted on 10/12/2026 10:30:59 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I do, actually one of my friends bought a 5mb drive for his apple.

and some years after that my mom had 500mb scsi drives in her machine cause they were much faster than the IDE ones.

today I have a bunch of 24tb sata drives sitting on my shelf for no good reason.

what a difference 30 years makes.


11 posted on 10/12/2026 11:02:35 PM PDT by algore
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember when a 5 MB hard drive was the size of a filing cabinet.


12 posted on 10/12/2026 11:11:01 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Male simping and female promiscuity is the same thing. Resources without reciprocation.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

my first was a massive 12mb hdd for over $500


14 posted on 10/13/2026 12:00:27 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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