In case anyone wants to take a look ... I shot
a couple of quick
 pictures of these huge IBM disk drives and stuck them:
 
http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscfront.JPG
 http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdisccu.JPG
 http://members.home.net/ip500/ibmdiscback.JPG
        No good reference for scale, but they are about 4' long X 2' dia
 and weigh approx 140 pounds [that's not including the motor & belt drive
 visable in picture 1]. These were mounted as pictured [upright], 2 to a
 cabinet, the motors were mounted above the drives and ran a 1.5" width
 belt down to the drive pulley. I can hardly beliefe these are circa
 1985! 
  Wow...that disk is BEEFY.  What's the capacity on that beastie
again?
         -Dave McGuire