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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 7, 2024 15:47:33 GMT -6
I'm transferring a bunch of old HD's to modern backups, look at this bad boy! 1999, 13.6gig's and the PRICE!!! I can't believe it still works!  |
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Post by doubledog on Nov 7, 2024 16:38:03 GMT -6
You are lucky to have found a converter that still talks to ATA/IDE! I can't imagine how painfully slow that drive must be too. I've been using SATA and NVMe SSDs so I could purposefully forget how slow they were!  And 13.6GB fits in your pocket now. |
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Post by ericn on Nov 7, 2024 16:39:30 GMT -6
And they were even more expensive when you were buying them from someone like Rorke or the like who was QC’ing the.
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 7, 2024 17:09:19 GMT -6
You are lucky to have found a converter that still talks to ATA/IDE! I can't imagine how painfully slow that drive must be too. I've been using SATA and NVMe SSDs so I could purposefully forget how slow they were! And 13.6GB fits in your pocket now. This little adapter does 3.5 IDE, SATA and 2.5 IDE, I had 5.7gigs on this HD and it took 45 minutes to transfer over on an adapted thunderbolt 4 cable that transfers 40gigs per second lol |
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Post by doubledog on Nov 8, 2024 13:33:51 GMT -6
Inateck is so close to Initech.  |
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Post by basspro on Nov 8, 2024 13:57:18 GMT -6
This reminds me - I have an old Glyph FW 400 drive that I need to transfer a bunch of old sessions from and I have no idea how I'm gonna do it.
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Post by chessparov on Nov 8, 2024 14:21:37 GMT -6
Inateck is so close to Initech. You mean “IncaTech”?   |
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Post by copperx on Nov 8, 2024 14:45:24 GMT -6
Isn't that the famed DeathStar? it's a miracle!
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Post by doubledog on Nov 8, 2024 16:22:12 GMT -6
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Post by doubledog on Nov 8, 2024 16:25:35 GMT -6
This reminds me - I have an old Glyph FW 400 drive that I need to transfer a bunch of old sessions from and I have no idea how I'm gonna do it. if you are near the Austin TX area, lmk quickly as I'm selling my PC desktop with the firewire card in it (which would talk to that drive...). I could help if I still have it. Or if you have a PC desktop, you can still get the PCIe cards on Amazon for pretty cheap. |
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Post by damoongo on Nov 8, 2024 19:38:51 GMT -6
Especially surprising it still works since it's a "death star". (The dreaded nickname for Deskstar drives because they failed so often.)
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Post by rowmat on Nov 9, 2024 16:26:16 GMT -6
I had an infamous IBM 75GXP Death Star Drive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failuresAnyone who had one should remember the noise they made as they failed. “Click. Scrape, scrape, scrape. Click. Scrape, scrape, scrape.” Apparently it was the sound of the heads contacting the platters and literally scraping the magnetic coating off them. Someone suggested the cause was due poorly implemented temperature compensation in the head controller which caused the heads to come into contact with the platters as the drive temperature increased. Mine failed after two weeks right in the middle of backing up to the drive. IBM went into denial over the problem and offered a number of firmware updates which didn’t fix it. A class action lawsuit began initially started by a user when a server had nearly all of its drives fail over a single weekend. Later there were stories of unrepaired RMA’d faulty drives being sent back out as replacements to replace other returned drives. There were numerous forum posts from users who had received replacement drives that were DOA. It was a debacle to say the least. Story was it caused the death of IBM’s hard drive division which was sold off to Hitachi not long after. |
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And 13.6GB fits in your pocket now.
