Old hard drives

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

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Back in the day when i had a 486 i remember the hard drive being real small and i think it was but cant be sure a 250 megabyte drive. I know some kids with the 386 computers had like 40mb drives and at some point i did have some 2 gigabyte drives from seagate lying around but were binned due to small capacity.

Searching for drives this old is impossible since google keeps mistaking megabytes as gigabytes lol and just giving me results for large modern drives.

Im trying to find out performance metrics for these old drives, how fast they were in data transfer and access and iops etc but nothing.
Anyone got any info on old drive performance?
 
Found some information, rather than look for info on the hdd itself i checked on the interface speed and ata PIO mode 4 was like 16mb per second. So getting somewhere
Im sure i had a hard drive that was bigger than the 3.5inch drives physically. It was quantum branded.
 
Haha i may be overestimating stuff this is 25 years ago or more lol.

I was just watching some nostalgia nerd and lgr or ljr is it and it got the old gears turning in my head. I never knew how fast the hdd was compared to cd etc since i never had benchmark software back then or would have thought to run it and i dont remember windows 3.1 or 95 showing the transfer speed of file copying.

Also i believe i had a drive made by connor? Where they gone now.
 
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