How big was your 1st hard drive...

[Caminetto]

20mb in a 386SX.
A friend bought one with 60mb and everyone laughed at the overkill, saying what would he ever do with that much storage.

 

[m3a2]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
130mb Connor in a packard bell 486

Mine had a Seagate same size

 

[DLBlank]

No poll?

 

[fixxxer0]

i had one of those less than 20mb ones way back in the day w/ my dual 5.25 floppies. but that was very long ago....


the first one that was officially MY computer, was a 1.5gig, and i remember that was the upgraded model lol. the salesperson on the phone saying "you could never fill this thing up" HA

now i have over 700GB filled

 

[Texun]

40meg in my smokin' 16MHz - 286

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Wow, I've gone from 20mb to 1.75TB in, what, 10 years... That an increase of 73,750%. LOL

 

[Luckyboy1]

My first actual hard, hard drive was 8 MB's in size and at the time, I was big time for having anything that big!

Do 8 KB CPROMS count?

 

[Stumps]

IBM 60mb MCA Bus, for IBM PS/2 Model 70...i can't remember what the price was back in 1992 but it cost more than my whole AMD64 system with a 6800GT today.

 

[Tarrant64]

Maxtor 40gb is what I had for my first PC build. I do own however a couple of BigFoot drives.

 

[stu1811]

Mac LC with 20 MB hd

 

[Oyeve]

5 megs, for my Atari 800. Cost well over 1000 bucks. Other was a 32 meg, cost me 600 bucks and took 10 hours to set interleave and low-level format. Next was a whopping 300 megger for my compaq deskpro 386/25, it was ESDI and cost 2000. In fact, the whole compaq deskpro 385/25 cost $12,000!

 

[thescreensavers]

500mb hard drive

 

[starwars7]

The first one that was technically mine was 2GIG. However, my family had some of those really old computers that ran off floppies, so I'm guessing that they were pretty small HD's

 

[Geomagick]

For my exclusive use it was a 2GB drive, later upgraded to an 8.4GB a couple of years later.

The first PC that I had regular use of had a 480MB drive.

 

[SparkyJJO]

10MB, had it 4 days before it died Oops, didn't realize you had to park the heads on those older drives....

 

[otispunkmeyer]

some 10 or 20gig job in a old packard bell pentium 100mhz (no MMX)

 

[Cobolman]

10mb....of course before that, dual floppies.


First computer I programmed on: Heathkit H89
First "computer" I owned: Timex/Sinclair
First computer I owned: Commodore C64
First computer I loved: Amiga 1000

 

[Nohr]

30MB on an IBM PS/1. 286, 1MB RAM, 3.5" FDD, 2400bps modem, and (drumrolls) 256KB color VGA graphics. It was a sweet computer back in the day.

 

[imported_Tick]

5gb on an old POS.

 

[Shawn]

40MB. Came with a Packard Bell 286. I think it was a Western Digital.

 

[anandfan]

20 Megbyte SCSI on my Amiga.

 

[Juno]

1.16gb (ibm aptiva)

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
some 10 or 20gig job in a old packard bell pentium 100mhz (no MMX)

thats freaking huge

my pentium 90mhz only had a 1.05gb SCSI drive...

even my K6-2 400 came with a 12gb and that was avg too.. I don't get how you had 10 - 20gb back then.

then came my Seagate Barracuda 17.2gb and a IBM Deathstar 75GXP 45gb...

finally after many years came my Hitachi 7K250 160gb, and a year later a Seagate 7200.8. A month later, I got yet another 7K250 160gb, and then nearly a year later I got my 7200.8 replaced for a 7200.9, and I also got a Raptor 74GB (16mb cache)..

I'm awaiting 2x320gb drives (whenever the time is right to buy them). I might check those T7K500s out as they are starting to show up in Japan. Maybe they're better than 7200.10s

 

[Slammy1]

I had a dual floppy on a Tandy 1000SX and bought a 486 DX2/50 with a 1.2GB Seagate that I kept a basic install and utilities on for the longest time in case I fubar'd my primary HDD. I left it with my P3 which a friend still uses, but I retired it when he upgrade to an IDE controller (I bought him the controller for X-Mas).

 

[Kyanzes]

20MB ST220 MFM if I recall correctly.