http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwkgwb3oabo

Still works to and seams rare. I can show this off when I am old to noobs what real hard drives are. :)

you think that is big?? I still have a Quantum Bigfoot 12,7GB drive here somewhere, those are huge.
They are as big as a dvd-drive and pretty noisy as well.

But nice to see such an old drive, still working even.

ultima wrote on 25.02.10 at 15:14:08:

you think that is big?? I still have a Quantum Bigfoot 12,7GB drive here somewhere, those are huge. They are as big as a dvd-drive and pretty noisy as well. But nice to see such an old drive, still working even.

I had a few my self but lost them when I moved from Dallas. I had a 1.2gb version working and two or three others if various sizes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=473kNyO9jUM

Now this is a crazy drive and lager than a vintage GE microwave that I used to have.

Quantum Bigfoot - memories...I had two of those, one real big in size 6.4 GB, the other was 2.1 GB....I still have a picture with both, but I can't find it on the HDD :(

There are some strange drives out there but to me impressive were the IBM Mainframe drives from the 70s and 80s looked like a small car engine.
"1980: The world's first gigabyte-capacity disk drive, the IBM 3380 was introduced, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (about 250 kg), and had a price tag of $40,000"
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about16883.html
http://2aday.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/20-years-ago-what-1-gb-looked-like/

Great links!  Those are some informative historical pages for disc drives, media and the technical details for them.

In one of my classes we got a dead IBM winchester drive and a few others but yea 14 inch platters are a sight to behold.