@tubetime now put a 8TB M.2 NVMe next to it and imagine that old SSD talking like a 80yr old grandma amd saying "I'm so proud of you, my granddaughter" to that SSD...

@tubetime Plus, that looks like a clear plastic housing over the platters in that photo

@tubetime the drive cover is actually transparent, I love seeing these things!

UsagiElectric shows some CD drives off in the Centurion computers he's restoring

https://youtube.com/@UsagiElectric

@tubetime But this is a Winchester 🙃

@tubetime Good heavens. I still have to maintain a legacy machine IRL that has one of these as its main backing store. The OS is so old that the disk has to be repaired with a disk editor that requires you to do all the calculations yourself and then tell it what to write to the disk, where.

@tubetime @wawik Can’t remember if this is reviving a Finch or a Wren but Usagi Electric does a lot of really old mini and larger computer restoration. https://youtu.be/hbc6n3Ln3bM?si=baaNzTLUGhBgd-zg

1985 illustration of a Maxtor 5 1/4" hard drive.

@tubetime very cool. I had a CDC Wren half height drive at one point from some time shortly after that line was bought by Seagate, it had Seagate labels but the firmware said CDC Wren