Older HDDs

[Nostram]

Anyone else NOT miss ribbon cables on old SCSI & IDE (PATA) drives? Been going through and clearing out a few older drives and am getting a reminder of how much I hate those cables.

 

[nightfly]

never had a problem with cables. Still have several 'ancient' machines running fine with scsi drives from 1999, 2001, and 2003, and two shuttles with IDE drives (sv25 and ss51, the st61g4 is 'new' 2004 and has sata drives). Keep 'em cool and they last pretty much forever. Back in the 90's, they sold intel slot cpu coolers, which were the same length as the hard drives. Mounted them on the drives and they barely even got warm. I keep checking them, but even after 10 years or more, no errors. The scsi drives are IBM, IDE's are one Quantum and the rest WD. New machines are all SSD, system drives are M4's but the program and data drives vary. I'll get back to you in 10 years about the lifespan of the sata SSD's! I wonder what type of interface we'll be using by then!

 

[Aesma]

Just the other day I wanted to see what was on an old 160GB PATA drive, plugged it in my PATA=>USB2 enclosure, and it didn't work : some pins got bent. I definitely hate those things and stopped buying them the minute SATA drives became available.

 

[TheMTZ]

+1 for not missing those cables. I specially hated those 68-pin SCSI-LVD cables for clogging up my enclosures.