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I thought this was kinda cool

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heres a picture of a older hard drive and a modern day hard drive. the older hard drive is i believe a 7gig, yeah there are some older with wayyyy less space. but i was diggin through my stuff n found this. just thought it was kinda funny because when i was taking apart the compaq this thing was in, the hard drive was nearly half as big as the mobo and took over 1 side of the case.. and was also very very loud. now next to it is a 80gb western digital drive that is better and faster and more reliable. kinda amazing how far we've come in such little time. i did hear stories about compaq and how they wanted to build cheap hard drives, i guess this was it. it feels like porclain. anyway, wonder where technology will be in 15 years from now eh?
 
hahaha no wonder they called it a Big Foot... hahaha now i see why.. Lmfao.. :p
 
How big is it? Thats incredibly big even by old technologies starndards. How old (even roughly) is the old one? If you apply the same ratio of sizes from the old one to the new one and apply it to the new one, you will have the size of a hard drive in the next period of time... ahh screw it, too much effort involved there.

All I can say is that hard drives in the future will fit into a small slot on the motherboard and have multi-terabyte capacity...well, I can dream can't I?
 
It's a Quantum bigfoot, and it's spindle speed is 3600RPM. And when it was introduced, circa 1995, 3.5" hard drives had been available for quite some time.

The deal with the bigfoot was that, because of it's larger platters, they could spin the drive slower and theoretically get the same read/write speeds due to the greater linear velocity. Of course, this theory only held if you were reading/writing from the outside of the platter to the area where a 3.5" drive stops.

Never caught on, of course.
 
Actually the platters in those 2 are (nearly) the same physical size. That form factor was Compaq proprietary and mounted flat against the right side of the case, in front of and on the same plane as the motherboard. The lower-end Compaqs had no 3.5" cage persay, just a little tab at the bottom of the 5.25" cage that held the floppy drive against the molded-in case bezel floppy opening.
 
hehehe... i've got one in an old p1 90mhz pavillion.

it was never hooked up or anything while i used it (the pavillion was given to me by a friend) and it was installed like a regular 5.25" drive.

incidentally, this thing's spec is actually similar to most "slim" cd drives these days... so it'll likely fit in a slim drive space.
 
its about 5 inches wide, 1 inch thick and 6-8 inches across, so its purty big. we baught this way back in.... 94? give or take a couple years.i was gonna take it apart and see what makes this thing live, cuz its still running surprisingly. come to think of it im not sure when we baught this thing. maybe before 94... i duno. but its old
 
you won't find anything unusual so save the drive... they are really durable tho.

i think if i can get my mom's permission (and the permission of the previous owner) i'm gonna see if that old bigfoot in the pavillion still runs, and what was on it.
 
starhawk said:
you won't find anything unusual so save the drive... they are really durable tho
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yeah sorry i forgot to add that i was gonna keep it cuz i probably wont come across another one. i took a better pic to show the size... well a semi better pic...

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yeah... this is definitely past the warranty period... but they *are* good drives and i wouldn't want to risk it.
 
Wuss. You have to live on the edge. The only way I get a rush nowadays is to break the warrenties on all my newly purchased hardware.
 
funny to say, the old drive outlasted the new drive, this drive is on its way to RMA tomorrow. only a year and a half old. so im glad i didnt *live on the edge* and break the warranty
 
There's nothing wrong with bigfoots. :) I had a 6.4 gig one in our old computer, and then a friend of mine gave me a 3.2 gig one a couple years ago. Damn solid drives. I always felt like I could drop it from five feet up and it would still work.
 
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