After doing the list I realized that I have a lot of 80GB+ hard drives. Might try selling a few just to see what happens. Don't really need them anyway and more will be coming along for sure.

smeezekitty wrote:

devius wrote:

Half-Saint wrote:

- IBM Deskstar IC35L040AVVN07-0 40GB

Isn't that the infamous "DeathStar"? I had one of those and it died a couple of years after I bought it exactly like it was supposed to. 😢

I have one...in working condition!
Obviously I don't use it for anything though.

I think I've got the 10GB version of that drive in storage. It does still work, unlike a couple of its siblings that I've come across over the years.

And yeah, I'd agree with keeping all drives you have that are under 4GB or so. I've got a nice cache of old hard drives myself (most of them being under 10GB), so whenever one drive in any of my retro systems goes, I can just replace it with ease.

I only use CF cards for retro machines (pre-Pentiums). I like the speed increase factor. Like SSD's now-a-days 😁

smeezekitty wrote:

I have one...in working condition!

That's interesting. The only chance for that to happen is if you never used it much. Either that or not all of them have the defect that cause them to malfunction.

kixs wrote:

I only use CF cards for retro machines (pre-Pentiums). I like the speed increase factor. Like SSD's now-a-days 😁

That and the silence 😁 If there was one thing I always hated about computers it's the mechanical HDD.

I'd say just on this forum there are still enough people using real hard drives for whatever reason.
Drives that I would think are in higher demand are the ones that max out a system like 500MB/8GB for example but you will always get the special cases like my 486 which maxes out at 6GB.
And they are going to get rare quicker then any other bit of hardware due to natural deaths plus people destroying them so their data is "safe" Personally I'd pay a few dollars for a 6GB drive even though I can get a 40GB drive for the same price but not able to use the extra space

chinny22 wrote:

And they are going to get rare quicker then any other bit of hardware due to natural deaths plus people destroying them so their data is "safe" Personally I'd pay a few dollars for a 6GB drive even though I can get a 40GB drive for the same price but not able to use the extra space

+1

That's interesting. The only chance for that to happen is if you never used it much. Either that or not all of them have the defect that cause them to malfunction.

I don't know how much it had been used as I didn't buy it new. Although even defective products with high failure rates occasionally
make it way longer than most. I don't use it. The only reason I keep it is because of it's reputation.

I think it is either 20 or 40 GB?

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I guess I could check the power on hours in SMART. I forgot about that

Half-Saint wrote:

I'm not worried about the data on these old drives as none of them contain any interesting data. Just having so much stuff aroun […]
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I'm not worried about the data on these old drives as none of them contain any interesting data. Just having so much stuff around can be a burden.. here's a list of what I've got:
- IBM Deskstar IC35L040AVVN07-0 40GB
- WD Caviar 21600 1.6GB
- Seagate Medalist ST31720A 1.7GB
- Quantum ProDrive LPS 105AT 105MB
- Fujitsu M1636TAU 1.28GB
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB
- ExcelStor Ganymede 80GB
- WD Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB
- WD Caviar WD1200 120GB
- Samsung SV200IH 20GB
- IBM DHEA-36481 6.4GB
- Fujitsu M1636TAU 1.28GB
- Fujitsu MPB3032AT 3.24GB
- Fujitsu MPE3064AT 6.48GB
- WD Caviar 34300 4.3GB
- WD Caviar 22500 2.5GB
- Seagate ST351A/X 40MB
- Conner CFS540A 540MB
- Maxtor Fireball 3 40GB
- WD Caviar SE WD800JB 80GB
- Fujitsu MPC3064AT 6.48GB
- Quantum Trailblazer 840AT 840MB
- Seagate Barracuda 200GB
- Seagate Barracuda 120GB
- Seagate Medalist ST34321A 4.3GB
- WD Caviar SE WD2000 200GB
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB
- Seagate ST380020A 80GB
- WD Caviar SE WD2500JB 250GB
- WD Blue WD3200AAJB 320GB
- WD Caviar WD800 80GB
- Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB
- WD Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB
- IBM Deskstar 41GB
- Seagate Medalist ST31276A 1.28GB

And that's not counting the hard drives that are currently inside my retro builds and various SATA drives that I own.

Are you selling these disks?