Old 40MB HDD

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I have just come across an old 40MB HDD in my Dad's office, and was wondering if it was worth any money.

It is a NEC D5146H:

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I don't think so, it's not old or rare enough to be worth anything. I have an old ~62mb WD drive, but it's not worth even thinking of selling.
 
ST-506 interface I think. The HDD was dumb and it was supplied with a controller card which did all of the clever stuff.

Oldest I've found is a 200MB Quantum ProDrive. Connected it to an IDE to SATA converter and run HDTune on it. Scores were horrendous! I'll post them if anyone wants a laugh :p
 
Ooh, that's old skool.

I had a 40MB HDD in my first PC, way back in 1993. I think it was a Seagate of some description and never ran quite the same after I tried using Drive Space on it. :(

:D
 
To give you some idea of prices I bought two 4.77Mhz XT Clone Samsung Desktop PC's for the office back in 1988. These had 10MB hdrives in and I got a good price for them direct from Samsung because I had done some work for their Marketing Manager when he was at Kyocera. I paid just short of £800 for each for them with basic monochrome (amber) monitors.
 
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