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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 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1308459 | 2012-10-24 08:57:00 | I have a 512mb (from memory) drive in my oldest PC. Still works. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1308460 | 2012-10-24 09:14:00 | Been doing a clean-out and found a box of hard drives tucked away in 2005. (Yes, I’m asking myself ‘why did I keep them?’) Quantum 210AT(201MB), 840S (850MB), 840AT(850MB), 240S(245MB), ST3290A(261MB), WD Caviar 2340 (341MB). That must have been about the time I started seeing hard drives with “GB” in the specs. Maybe I can fire up one of these and claim a record! |
coldot (6847) | ||
| 1308461 | 2012-10-24 09:18:00 | Around 2005 80GB SATA-1 Seagate Barrucudda. I also have a semi broken 20GB Hitachi 2.5" IDE off a 2000 laptop. Enclosure now. Mid 2000s we gave away a working 1GB Maxtor to eDay. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1308462 | 2012-10-24 09:32:00 | 10GB Seagate from 2001. Date code 0133. I keep it at work as a 3rd backup of family photos etc. |
b.... (7683) | ||
| 1308463 | 2012-10-24 10:00:00 | I have a three Seagate drives ST34321A (date code 9914) and ST32122A (date code 9832) and an ST31277A (date code 9803 1.2GB). I'm not quite sure now but I think the first two are 2GB and they hold old archive records (backed up elsewhere as well) but they still work when fired up to look for the odd file. I've actually got 8 drives from various computers, nothing bigger than 20GB, and all were still working last time I checked. The 1.2 GB 9803 disk was 'repaired' by Computer Forensics but I suspect that there was actually nothing wrong with it because the seals are unbroken. I have another five disks of varying ages but most drawing the pension but still mobile. I have floppies that go back further and are still readable. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1308464 | 2012-10-24 10:08:00 | I've got a 3GB something-very-old as the boot drive of my server. I think it has a little donkey inside, walking in circles to turn the platters :D |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1308465 | 2012-10-24 18:49:00 | I still have a working Quantum Fireball 2.1GB IDE drive. It's not actively in use, but it still spins up and reads/writes OK, heh. I think that's the oldest fully functional drive I have. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1308466 | 2012-10-24 20:02:00 | I have a 20 megabyte hard drive stored in a container somewhere. I bet that if I even tried to connect it to my current computer that it would be told, "Go away, old timer". I used it in the DOS based computer I bought way back in 1987. I was told by the seller that I would never fill it. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1308467 | 2012-10-24 21:10:00 | Mine is 40Gb in an asus laptop probably about 8-10 years old | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1308468 | 2012-10-24 21:30:00 | I have a 20 megabyte hard drive stored in a container somewhere. I bet that if I even tried to connect it to my current computer that it would be told, "Go away, old timer". I wouldn't. If the interface is electrically compatible then there is no logical reason why it shouldn't work. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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