How big was your 1st hard drive...

[grrl]

40 megs on a Tandy SX1000.

 

[PowerEngineer]

A 30 Mb in an IBM PC...

After having to swap floppy disks in and out (even within an application) on my previous machine, I though I had really arrived...

 

[PhoenixOrion]

first hard drive purchase standalone: 8.5gig

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

119MB (formatted)

 

[thegimp03]

1.2 gb in a 75mhz p1.

 

[Jeff7181]

40 megabyte Seagate drive in a 386SX 16MHz with 2 MB of RAM... we used a compression program to double the space... what was it called... DriveSpace I believe.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
The 20MB hard drive in my dad's computer (IBM PS/2 Model 50) was the first that I used. A few years later, I was given a [by then] very out of date IBM PS/1 with a 30MB hard drive - that would be the first hard drive that was "mine" exclusively.

My dads Amiga 1200 came with a 20mb HDD so that was his first.

My first was his 170mb drive as he upgraded, short lived.... his 420mb Seagate didnt like his Blizzard Accelerator board... so he kept the old 170 and I got the 420

 

[RebateMonger]

10MB Seagate ST212 (?) full height in IBM PC-XT, ca. 1985.

 

[Trippytiger]

As I understand, it was a 40MB drive in an IBM PC... I was quite young at the time.

 

[CrispyFried]

10 meg mfm seagate that I later ran with a rll card that turned it into a 20 meg. thing took like 5 mins to spin down, it sounded like a jet engine.. ST-210 maybe?

ran it in a columbia ibm pc clone that had a cassette port.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

4GB was the first hard drive that I owned, although we have had family computers with 500MB hard drives.

 

[sheltem]

40 meg drive in my Compuadd 286. Got that system back in 89 I believe.

 

[alimoalem]

i believe it was about 120mb or so and we upgraded it (at a $1 per megabyte) to .5 gigs. i was about 8 at the time so the 120mb could be a little off

 

[F1shF4t]

My first exclusive comp that i've owned was a 486 Dx2 66, had a very huge 400mg hdd, my grandma bought the whole comp for 20 bucks, but this was in the day when p2 & p3's were out Then again all i used the comp was for gameboy games.

 

[powerMarkymark]

20 mb


M@rc

 

[Lord Evermore]

5.75in x 4in x 1in








Well nobody else said it!

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Had a 250MB WD in a 486. The drive is still functional after 14 years.

You too!!!

My 1992 200MB WD, also from a 486, still gets weekly use.

Hermit

 

[DrZoidberg]

my very first comp
intel 386dx with 85MB hard disk.

didnt even have sound card, so unless game had sound coming from system speaker all my games had no music. 1MB ATI card as well.

 

[Mithan]

10 or 20 meg, cant remember.
386/20

 

[BOLt]

60GB HDD in my old Sony Vaio. I think I managed to sell the whole computer awhile ago. I'm at 500GB now split between two Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA drives. Ah, how the times have changed...

 

[pkme2]

540MB and I still have it,. don't know if it works, but can't throw it away.

 

[RedBeard]

hmmm.... I had some old RLL or MFM hd in my first PCXT.

My first REAL hard drive was the hard card 40! How cool was that thing. People complain about dual slot video cards

 

[ForumMaster]

my first was an 80gb Maxtor for my comp. ofcourse i am only 15 so i have only been really into computers the last 3 years. my dad baught in 1994 a Mac with a 160MB hdd and it cost a bundle. he then upgraded it too a 1gb. the thing still runs for my little sister. (all she needs is Word and music!)

 

[Darth Farter]

70megs, then a 170 and a 270 all together in my 386SX 25MHz

after that 4gig in my aptiva 166MHz w/ mmx

there p4 willamette 1.4GHz after 40 gig - 80 gig and then the system in my sig.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, 20 MB. And that beat the heck out of the 5, 7.5, 10 and 15 mb drives. It was a Seagate 220 and that was also the price. Jim