The smallest 3.5" HDD (45MB!!!)

[A31]

The smallest HDD I've ever seen!! (capacity-wise)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/45MB-old-IBM-hard ... 3cabd3e97e

[AMATX]

Well, on my first, hand assembled pc/boat anchor, I had a gargantuan 5 Meg hard drive...worked very nicely with the 640k(?) or thereabouts storage and DOS...

PCs have come a long way...

[RealBlackStuff]

Meet "Old Faithful" Seagate ST-412 (10MB) and ST-225 (20MB). http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-a.html
Everybody's favorites in the 1980s.

At that time I paid over $1,000.- for an 80MB (that's megabyte) Seagate ST4096, a 5" thick monster!
http://www.aresluna.org/attached/comput ... 6-byte8901
Access time was a superfast 28ms
Today these HDs still cost about $500! http://www.4drives.biz/catalog/product_ ... ts_id=2729

[Temetka]

Thanks for the links rbs!

I spent about 2 hours on redhill's site going on a trip down memory lane. It is surprising how many of those drives I remember coming in contact with as my years as a pc technician.

[j-dawg]

I remember back in the days when Windows 95 fit onto my 212mb (formatted) drive.

[A31]

I remember back in the days when Windows 95 fit onto my 212mb (formatted) drive.

Lol, I have the Windows 95 OSR2.5 CDs, never used - only just taken out of the seal wrap (after only 15 years lol!!)

My Dad tells me that he still has a 20MB HDD!! (presumably from late 1980s / early 1990s?)

10MB 5.25" HDD - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEC-D5124-ST506-M ... 518ce5b9bf (and yes, you did read that price correctly!)

One day though, in the future, we'll find that 500GB is tiny, and that 5TB is pretty small - technology is moving forwards...

[Norway Pad]

I remember back in the days when Windows 95 fit onto my 212mb (formatted) drive.

And I remember the day that I upgraded one of my oldest computers to Win98, and it *barely* fitted on the 180Mb hard drive. A couple of days of surfing and the addition of some temp files made it crash. He, he. That was a 486 machine I got around 1994/95, I think.

[A31]

I just installed NT 4.0 Workstation on Virtual PC 2007 on a 500MB hard drive and I promise you, when I went to install Office 97, it said there wasn't enough disk space to install - and trying to install Office 97 was the first thing I did!!

So on my 500MB virtual HDD, with no programs installed, NT 4.0 takes up about 495MB of space and there is only 2MB of space left!!

[RealBlackStuff]

Nowadays people are thinking Gigabytes and even Terabytes, not measly Megabytes!
What were you expecting from only 500MB?

[BillMorrow]

i have an alpha microsystems AM 1000 with a 5 meg 5 inch HDD..
last time i tried to boot it up it refused..
i have 4 terminals for the AM1000..
two wyse 50+ and 2 televideo 755 terminals..