This image was taken with an iPhone 17 Pro. Luckily this hard drive was replaced with a SSD (Solid State Drive) before it had the chance to fail. It was a very low capacity drive so I thought it might make for interesting subject matter once the cover was removed π
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I used one of these as a paperweight for years. I wonder when it disappeared. But good to see such a device again leading a second life as the star of a shoot
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Paperweight is definitely a great repurpose for old hard drives π Thank you.
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This picture take me to the time when this kind of device had size of biggest pot. And it was just about 30 years ago.
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Conventional hard drives still have the edge when it comes to storage space vs cost. My first computer had a 500 megabyte hard drive and I thought that was enough storage to last me forever Alexander π This particular drive in the photo was a 2.5 inch 250 gigabyte Toshiba branded drive that I had pulled out of a 2010 MacBook Pro many years ago and replaced it with an SSD. It’s strange but I remember taking apart an old Seagate 5.25 inch hard drive and it had a metal platter. This Toshiba drive had what seemed to be a ceramic platter because it shattered when I tried to bend it to destroy any data left after formatting it. Times have definitely changed in the 30 years that you mentioned but I remember “the good old days” just like you do π.
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Joe,
When I wrote about size of hard drive 30 years ago I had in mind old IBM stations which occupied pretty big rooms. And the hard drive for this kind of machine were looking like at least 5 units with the size of modern washing machine.
I am saying it because I was in IT business by that time.
Hard drives with the size 5.25β and desktop computers in wide use appeared in our life sometimes in the 80th.
I believe you know that fact with no my explanation.
Anyway, we are the witnesses of modern technology revolution.
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Those must have been the hard drives with multiple 14 inch platters Alexander. I have never seen one of the original IBM Model 350 disk storage systems but supposedly they were the size of a modern refrigerator with 24 inch platters π³.
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Yes, it is exactly what I had in mind.
Have a nice day!
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Even the best technology ages, and faster and faster! Help! π
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I can’t keep up with the changes Charly π€·π»ββοΈ Thank you π
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Such detail! wow …
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Thank you Laurie π
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Interesting to see the inner workings, Joe. Cool shot.
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Thank you Jane π
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think you may have just voided the warranty there π€£ but at least you now got yourself some super-strong fridge magnets! πβοΈπ§²
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ππ€£ππ Thank you Graham π
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