Quantum Bigfoot.

[Gigantopithecus]

Why are there no 5.25" full height form factor hard drives on the market today? Most cases - both from big box and DIY manufacturers - have unused 5.25" internal bays in them. With today's densities, lower rpms like on current green drives would be viable mass storage devices, mitigating the need for too much power (if that's even a limitation).

 

[npaladin-2000]

Those bays are meant for tape drives and optical drives, not outdated HDDs named after Sasquatch. 🙂

Generally one just buys a 3.5 inch drive and a converter bracket like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811993004

Or a hot swap bay like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817998184

5.25 inch hard drives would be a waste, since I doubt the platters would be any bigger.

 

[taltamir]

Why are there no 5.25" full height form factor hard drives on the market today? Most cases - both from big box and DIY manufacturers - have unused 5.25" internal bays in them. With today's densities, lower rpms like on current green drives would be viable mass storage devices, mitigating the need for too much power (if that's even a limitation).

Such extra space comes at a cost. It wastes more material on the chasis and requires the construction of larger platters (which must be fairly flawless). And it also negatively impacts seek times.
To add to all of that the home user has no need for so much space and its less efficient (which is why datacenters are moving away from 3.5 to 2.5" drives)

Towers could be easily made with more 3.5" trays and fewer 5.25" ones if there was actually a need and demand for it.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I miss my Quantum Bigfoot. So loud and big.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I really don't see a reason to resurrect "bigfoot". Green drives are bad enough. Do we need huge platters? I see those drives as less viable than even IDE drives these days.

 

[tommo123]

i'd like these again (had a bigfoot - 12gb i think). for plain storage it would be great. if you're storing 100s of HD movies then seek times aren't that important but having bigger platters and more of them would be nice

 

[Gunbuster]

It would be unwise to resurrect the form factor of quite possible the worst line of IDE hard drives ever.

 

[npaladin-2000]

But in all fairness they did make very nice skeet and EXCELLENT paperweights.