Old 40MB HDD

Danger Phoenix · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:20

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:

andy_mk3 · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:28

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.

MeatLoaf · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:31

What interface is that?

DragonQ · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:40

I will give you 2.5p for it.

Randomface74 · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:44

Put a surface on it - makes a good coaster.

andy_mk3 · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:45

MeatLoaf said:
What interface is that?

Can't remember the name of it but it's like a female IDE connector, I'm pretty sure the old 5.25" floppy drives used them also

richb93 · 12 Dec 2010 at 15:01

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

Danger Phoenix · 12 Dec 2010 at 15:43

I pulled this out of a 8MHz (10MHz on Turbo) Epson desktop... state of the art in 1986

Duke · 12 Dec 2010 at 16:24

Put it on auction and find out - but doubt it is worth anything.

powelly · 12 Dec 2010 at 16:45

just thinking about this makes me lol, but isn't it just fascinating how tech has evolved

Lunatic Dreyfus · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:07

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.

coltpython3 · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:10

DragonQ said:
I will give you 2.5p for it.

ill raise u! 2.6p

DragonQ · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:49

Can't beat that, 2.5p was massively generous in the first place. When you can get a 500 GB drive for £20, 40 MB is worth 0.16p.

Reldar · 12 Dec 2010 at 19:19

I wonder how much it cost on release?

Lummox · 12 Dec 2010 at 19:41

Gosh that's worth a fortune - I'll give you 2.7 p for it

WDeranged · 13 Dec 2010 at 02:48

That's an MFM drive if my memory serves me, I had a couple of them in my first (286) PC.

ubersonic · 13 Dec 2010 at 09:02

Haven't seen that interface since IDE drives hit the scene, think ive still got a 27mb one in an Amstrad 8088 in the loft lol

powelly · 13 Dec 2010 at 09:42

i think that hdd is older than me

mothermachine · 13 Dec 2010 at 09:48

keep it. might be worth something in 20 years maybe to a collector, museum etc.

VFM Addict · 13 Dec 2010 at 10:37

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.