21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
4:48 a.m.
On 7/21/21 4:20 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Compaq were big fans of the Bigfoot drives, if I remember right - I expect
that's what they are. I'd put them in that "rare but not valuable"
category
though, possibly of minor interest to a few collectors or museums just for
the quirky aspect.
Regarding your "IDE HDDs were extremely rare" comment, did *anyone* other
than Quantum release an IDE drive in that 5.25" form factor? I can't think
of any, everything else was 3.5", although some early vendor's drives were
the same height as a "half height" 5.25" drive.
and a whole
bunch(!) of 10- and 20-GByte IDE/PATA 5.25-inch desktop hard drives
I consider this bit unlikely TBH. 5.25" *IDE* HDDs were _extremely_
rare. The 5.25" format was dead before IDE came along, and 99% were
3.5", except the Quantum Bigfoot range. Those were slow, unreliable,
but cheap. I have one, as a sentimental reminder of full-width hard
disk drives from the beginning of my career.