Are hard drives too hard?

[Leros]

Wouldn't they absorb more data if they were softer? :hmm:

 

[Printer Bandit]

don't worry, they'll go the way of the floppy drive in a few years.

 

[RavenSEAL]

 

[Powermoloch]

wat

 

[Shawn]

That's not what she said.

 

[deanx0r]

why did they ever call it a floppy disc?
It's square, and hard.

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[Shawn]

why did they ever call it a floppy disc?
It's square, and hard.

because they used to be floppy

 

[HybridSquirrel]

why did they ever call it a floppy disc?
It's square, and hard.

wow really? im in my 20's and I know that they used to be big 5 1/2 inch floppies that were floppy.

 

[evident]

3.5 floppy, 7 hard?

 

[dawp]

wow really? im in my 20's and I know that they used to be big 5 1/2 inch floppies that were floppy.

even 3 1/5 have flexable media, only the outer shell is hard. I don't think he was serious.

 

[Howard]

even 3 1/5 have flexable media, only the outer shell is hard. I don't think he was serious.

3.2"?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

because they used to be floppy

I can hear it! The noise!!

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

 

[Dr. Zaus]

3.25

 

[dawp]

3.2"?

mistyped, should have been 3 1/2 OR 3.5

also the other size is 5 1/4 (5.25) NOT 5 1/2 (not dircected at you howard)

 

[Murloc]

this topic gives me diarrhea.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

this topic gives me diarrhea.

Cat diarrhea?

 

[alzan]

wow really? im in my 20's and I know that they used to be big 5 1/2 inch floppies that were floppy.

I'm roughly twice your age and worked with systems that booted from 8" floppy disks. The hard disk drives that provided more storage were larger than clothes dryers. There were different configurations, the largest of which used disk packs that were ~30 lb and were made up of 12 15" platters, each side of the platter providing roughly 13 MB of usable space, for a total of 300 MB per disk pack (one platter side provided the synch. info).

It's my profile pic.

Now THAT was a hard drive.

alzan

 

[Oyeve]

I'm roughly twice your age and worked with systems that booted from 8" floppy disks. The hard disk drives that provided more storage were larger than clothes dryers. There were different configurations, the largest of which used disk packs that were ~30 lb and were made up of 12 15" platters, each side of the platter providing roughly 13 MB of usable space, for a total of 300 MB per disk pack (one platter side provided the synch. info).

It's my profile pic.

Now THAT was a hard drive.

alzan

I remember those. We had a few that were water cooled too. There were a then whopping 10mb!!!!

 

[Shawn]

I can hear it! The noise!!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoDLyiQYKw&feature=related

 

[Ichinisan]

why did they ever call it a floppy disc?
It's square, and hard.

They were previously big and floppy. Check out a 5.25" floppy disk sometime.

...and it was never called a "disc" except by those that didn't know better. A "disc" is round and flat. A "disk" contains at least 1 round/flat platter inside a package that can be any shape, but is usually squared or rectangular.

 

[midwestfisherman]

nef nef nef...

 

[Fritzo]

Yes. Also I find my RAM works much better if it only shoves gently.