How big was your first hard disk?

Lyle44 · 19 Apr 2009 at 22:47

30Gb in a computer from a now defunct computer company

linktoinsanity · 20 Apr 2009 at 09:21

105MB in a 486sx25 with Windows 3.1 and Dos 5. Our first Windows 95 computer had a 4.3GB hard disk (P200MMX).

Firestar_3x · 20 Apr 2009 at 10:13

6.4gb i think, can't really remember might have been an 9.1gb Quantum drive, had both around the same time

naknakkus · 20 Apr 2009 at 10:27

A massive 3gb.

CaptainRAVE · 20 Apr 2009 at 11:44

4.05GB...was crazy expensive!

LeJosh · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:03

400MB or something, played warcraft and red alert, settlers 2, them be the days!

Paradiso · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:27

microdrive on a spectrum i think.

OCdude · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:43

I don't remember what i had in my old 286, but i remember the HDD we had in our first Pentium PC was 810MB lol

physichull · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:45

Mine was 6GB. The bloke in the computer shop said it would be "all I would EVER need"....

WobblerJW · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:47

40 Mb was so big in them days.....

domthecondom · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:52

:| 1gb and my dad then "extended it" to 2gb :| dont ask me how but he said he did LOL

philjohn · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:55

I think it was around 20MB, we then "upgraded" to 80MB and used DoubleSpace to fit a bit more on there.

Next up was a 2GB jobby in a Pentium, which seemed massive at the time. Strange considering that you can easily get that capacity on a tiny MicroSD card smaller than your thumbnail now!

gam3r · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:58

6GB on my trusty old gateway P133!

celliott · 20 Apr 2009 at 16:20

First one I can remember was 1GB

Dogbreath · 20 Apr 2009 at 22:53

20MB MFM (the alternative to SCSI before IDE was developed) drive in a 286. Had to build a working drive out of two dead ones that I got from a computer auction. Those were the days when Castle Wolfenstein was bleeding edge, and the idea of running games under Windows (3.1) was just ridiculous.