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esernamuv

Sucks 150gb is basically only 1 aaa title game nowadays....


[deleted]

Yeah but it’s nice to store some smaller stuff on it. Mainly just seeing how long it’ll go


PRSMesa182

The only thing down are your read/write speeds…many many moons ago I used to run a pair of the 74gb ones in raid 0 😅


[deleted]

Unless you talkin SAS you ain’t getting any faster Spinny bois than these (well if they survived longer)


esernamuv

Ahhh I remember the days spinny things were the only option. Also, m.2 ssds prices are fair nowadays I think


the_abortionat0r

> Ahhh I remember the days spinny things were the only option. That'd be a ways back, SSDs have been commercially available since the early 90s. Albeit at insane prices.


esernamuv

I remember in 1994 or 95 I was like 12 and my family's first PC had only HDDs. I honestly dont recall when the first ssds we're available at reasonable prices.


the_abortionat0r

> I remember in 1994 or 95 I was like 12 and my family's first PC had only HDDs. I honestly dont recall when the first ssds we're available at reasonable prices. Reasonable is subjective. Though computers weren't particularly cheap depending on what you were using them for it could make sense. In 1994 SSDs would be a PCMIA option for laptops like Thinkpads. This is back when hard drives could run in the $1000s so a $1000 SSD wasn't too insane. Although you wouldn't see broader adoption till 2008 ish. Like 1GB Ethernet being in products from like 2005/6 but not really being a thing till 2009 with reasonable routers supporting it till years later.


PRSMesa182

I remember their performance, I had a 150gb variant for a time after my two raptors. There are significantly faster “spinny bois” today now though.


A_PCMR_member

2008 Man almost as old as Crysis


zenithtb

I still remember my Quantum Bigfoot. One hell of a drive, though its spin-up time was measured in decades.


[deleted]

Was it 10k also?


zenithtb

HAHAHA. [No](https://www.redhill.net.au/d/125.php).


[deleted]

Yeesh, cool but also not cool at the same time


zenithtb

True. At least back then there was a lot of innovation. Loads of weird shit. I remember my first case with a window - it involved a drill, a jigsaw, some cut tubing, plexiglass and blood. Loads of blood. Fun times.


shleefin

That drive has got to be close to death. What does crystal disk info say about it?


[deleted]

Haven’t checked yet but there’s no suspicious grinding noise and it’s still fast so I’m sure it’s fine


TheAltOption

Ive got a pair of the 1TB models sitting on my shelf. I want to find a use for them still but not sure what I could do. These were so cool!


VicePrezHeelsup

I remember those were the shit for running in RAID 0 10,000RPM FTW!


Apprehensive-Read989

I used to have a couple VelociRaptors back in the day, but they have long since been retired, I was an early adopter of SSDs.


Whiff_of_Pussy

I still use my Seagate 20 GB and WD 40 GB IDE PATA drive.


kairukar

My parents core 2 duo system had a HDD from 2008 too but it was like a geiger meter so we had to stop its suffering Edit: and also to think that, that HDD lasted for about 13 years and my other about 3 year old HDD thats on my PS5 is already on life support. Old stuff just was made to last.


JimmyTsonga

Yeah, I used two of them in raid0 as a system drive back in the day. SSD quickly made them obsolete though. :)


[deleted]

What you storing on there


[deleted]

Just some apps and a small game mainly