need more storage?

wonder if thats only here (warranty wise)? UK wise we had zero probs.. maxtor were always our worst by far... bearing in mind on just one of our raid units we had 42 disks crammed in.. and we sold 150 of them a month (units not disks :) ) very few failures... and we produced 6 different models varying from 4 disk units to the 42 disk beast..

agreed tho... the IBM deskstars were the ultimate in unreliability! you'd think after all this time hitachi would of managed to shrug that name of... but no..

Thanks

Steve

I remember installing my first hard drive into my first PC (which ran Windows 1.03 fine with a single 3.5" floppy drive) back in 1990. It was a whopping huge 32MB. I remember being very impressed by that and think I'd never fill that up.

Since then I've thought the same about 120MB, 500MB, 1GB, 3GB, 8GB, 30GB and 40GB in various combinations but have always eventually started to run out of room.

I've been using a 250GB external drive for a couple of years now and that is now half full.

Things have certainly moved on since using a single 720k floppy drive and DOS3.0 :)

Just a quick calculation for fun: My first HDD was 32MB and cost me 250GBP. 1TB = (approx) 31250 32MB drives. To get that storage capacity in 1990 would have cost me nearly 8 million GBP. Somewhat more than my paperround would ever have allowed. :)

my first hdd was 10mb and cost 1600 odd dollars including the 8bit controller..

i scrimped and saved for 18months to get it...

i was given a brand new one still in the box a few years ago, they were throwing half a hiace van full of them into a pit at a tip..

brought tears to my eyes...

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Originally Posted by incisor

my first hdd was 10mb and cost 1600 odd dollars including the 8bit controller..

i scrimped and saved for 18months to get it...

i was given a brand new one still in the box a few years ago, they were throwing half a hiace van full of them into a pit at a tip..

brought tears to my eyes...

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Beatcha.

Mine was a huge 30 Mb Rll job on an 8 bit Winchester card, plugged into a Compaq 286. She ran DOS 6.22 with Windows Ver3, at a blinding 12 Mhz, had a massive 4 Mb of RAM. Hercules CGA. What a beast of a machine she was.

I think I sold some body else's daughter for that machine. Just to play "DAS BOOT". Remember that? 16 colours man, 16 of the buggers, all at once, wow.


Shorty.