How big was your 1st hard drive...

[Asthmaboy]

I just got my first PC, so my first hard drive would be a 250GB.


In the first Mac that was mine in the household, my first was a 30GB, though.

 

[Markfw]

A 5 MEG, yes that is MEG Shugart in 1985.

 

[pkrush]

With my family's first computer, we had a 40 meg external drive for the Mac SE. Then, I got an IBM 6.4 gigabyte drive in a Pentium 233. Now, I have a WD 250 gig drive.

 

[Matthias99]

The earliest one that was 'mine' was a 20MB external SCSI drive for a Mac Classic. That thing was *loud*, too.

I *think* maybe the IBM AT my dad owned had a 4MB hard drive. Not sure, though; it could have been bigger.

 

[chilled]

1.06GB Seagate in my P120.

 

[Aisengard]

640MB in my whitebox P-75, with 8MB of RAM.

We later added a 1 GB drive and upgraded to 40MB of RAM.

Then in 1998 we got our whitebox PII-350 with 64MB of RAM, and an 8GB hard drive, which I added a GeForce2 MX, and another 64MB RAM.

Then in 2002 we got our Dell, P4-1.8 (Before Northwood...whatever the core was called.) With a 40GB hard drive and 256MB of RAM and a GeForce3 Ti200, on which we added another 256MB. My family still uses that today, hard to believe it's nearing 4 years old!

 

[Swanny]

For the first computer that was exclusively mine (not my families'), it was 9.1Gb.

 

[Aznguy1872]

400 MBs, 486 66 Mhz baby! 4 MB of ram!

 

[pukemon]

Miniscribe 30MB MFM drive in my Leading Edge D2 (286-10 w/640KB RAM) back in 1987. Those were the days...

 

[LongTimePCUser]

A 5 MB drive that I bought from a friend. He had actually partitioned it into 2 x 2.5 MB since he thought that 5 MB was just too much space.

 

[formulav8]

My first comp was a Tandy 386SX with clockspeed settings of 20mhz and 8mhz?? IIRC. The HD was a huge 85MB!! 1MB of ram that was upgraded to 3MB of ram. Expensive stuff too! But I had some good times with it as far as I remember.


Jason

 

[GuitarDaddy]

10mb My first couple of computers didn't have hard drives

 

[squirrel dog]

80 meg drive for an Atari St,it cost over 500 dollars .

 

[Megatomic]

My first was also 20MB in size.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i want to say 8mb. it may have been 20mb tho. it was on a 8mhz pc.

 

[cbuchach]

My first was a 40 MB hard drive. I remember when I installed the Stacker software on it and I got ~80MB of space--that was HUGE!!

 

[potato28]

First was a 2 mb disk in a Windows 3.1 or something...

 

[dogmir]

i was one of the luky ones...i had 2 count em 2 5.24" 20 mb drives....lol....then i moved up to a conor 3.5" 40mb and i thought it doesnt get much better than this....when i finally got my 740 mb western digital...i never thought i could fil it up....and now i have a 250 gig i can barely keep any free space on....lol.....

 

[PsychoPsonic]

52MB Quantum SCSI drive in an Amiga 2000HD.

Still works like a champ!

 

[DieHardware]

80MB, still have it, lol, still running in an old Mac.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

10GB Quantum Fireball in a Gateway G6-350. I thought back then I would never fill that thing up. Now when I have 10GB left i need to go get a new HD lol. I have about 310GB of HD space right now over 3 drives.

 

[shabby]

250meg conner drive.

 

[BFG10K]

The first HD I ever used was 10 MB (I think) running in a Mac SE.

The first HD I actually purchased was a 2 GB one for my PowerMac.

The first PC HD I purchased was a 13 GB Seagate. I have that one still sitting in a drawer.

 

[Wreckage]

40MB MFM, about the size of a CD drive. Lodged in a screaming fast 286.

 

[czech09]

300megs or something like that - first family one? The first one that was actually mine had 4gigs.