I began my first job ever working at a computer repair shop not soon after those drives first hit the market and I recall them being pretty dodgy. I replaced many Bigfoot drives when I was in high school! They were also dog slow ... 3600 RPM, I think ... The quality got better as time went on, if someone wanted to make the calculated purchase to use one as a "data tank" and not care about the throughput too much ... later Bigfoots were maybe okay for such an application ... but they were always poor performers. I saw many home PCs with needlessly crippled performance due to the inclusion of a Bigfoot drive by the vendor trying to push GB/$. Best, Sean On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: