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Thread ID: 127472 2012-10-24 06:35:00 Oldest hard drive that remains in use hueybot3000 (3646) PC World Chat
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1308449 2012-10-24 06:35:00 Mine is a western digital 80gig that I bought in 2001-2002 I think. Still going strong although it is only used as a backup drive for my docs now, maybe not so bright... :dogeye: hueybot3000 (3646)
1308450 2012-10-24 06:38:00 If it's still going 10 years later it will probably last a while longer. Generally if they have problems they'll die in the first year. Agent_24 (57)
1308451 2012-10-24 06:39:00 That's good news! I think I was feel like I had lost a child if it died, given I was all of 13 at the time of buying it hueybot3000 (3646)
1308452 2012-10-24 06:45:00 Must have cost a fair bit at the time. The Error Guy (14052)
1308453 2012-10-24 06:49:00 It was my first computer that I bought myself, I was karting at the time and sold it to fund the build. Kinda stupid now that I think back hueybot3000 (3646)
1308454 2012-10-24 06:55:00 I've got an old WD 80GB drive. Never failed me. ChazTheGeek (16619)
1308455 2012-10-24 07:15:00 I had a 1GB drive that worked perfectly fine sometime back (so must have been pretty old). Only threw it out because I had no use for it. :p pcuser42 (130)
1308456 2012-10-24 07:20:00 Lol. :D I have an 8GB HDD in my box of PC junk. Not sure if it goes. ChazTheGeek (16619)
1308457 2012-10-24 07:24:00 I have a 16gig from my first computer, bought it for $200 a long time ago hueybot3000 (3646)
1308458 2012-10-24 08:55:00 Friday last I had to take some home movies off a hard drive as the owners had just updated and didnt know how to move their files to their new pc. It was an old HP running a PII 433MHz 64Mb Ram and a 6Gb HDD running Win 98. Booted it up, was still running strong. Oldest thing I've worked on for many years. It was a bit of fun to work on a Win98 box again, makes me appreciate just how far we have come since then.

40Gb HDD's with XP are still common in the workplace but they dont do a lot of work really and are generally large enough in most (office) work places.
Iantech (16386)
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