How Big Was Your First Internal Hard Drive?

Well, I'm a little older than your "average" Geek here, and I come from the pre hard drive days. In the beginning we would lose anything in memory upon power down. We graduated to the then "massive" storage device of 5.25" floppy disk. Usually one for the OS and one for storage. I didn't have an actual hard drive until my first 286 computer.

My first hard drive was a whopping 40 megabyte...that's right MEGABYTE...not GIGABYTE! It had a 30 meg partition for DOS and later I installed Windows 3.0 (not 3.1), and a hidden 10 meg partition. Ah, those were the days!

How big was your first internal drive? Inquiring minds want to know. :)

Tags: first, hard drive, hardware, size

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Permalink Reply by EEngineer on April 6, 2009 at 3:27pm: Mine was 30 gigs.

I also miss those floppy disks... Haha; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by EliteGeek on April 6, 2009 at 3:30pm: Same here. 30GB. I thought I was in high cotton, too.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by EEngineer on April 6, 2009 at 3:32pm: Haha good times... good times.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew on April 6, 2009 at 3:32pm: my first was a 20 gig, thought it'd be enough. Now I don't have enough space on my 250 gig external.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Amit Dahan on April 6, 2009 at 3:37pm: 20GB, probably had one with less before that, but I didn't bother knowing since I was like 8 y/o :X; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by david_mallette on April 6, 2009 at 3:53pm: Mine was under a gig. Of course I also remember the 5.25 floppy on my C64. I think it was called a 1541. the drive croaked on me and I couldn't get it fixed. It was a disk alignment problem whatever that is.it was't until the Windows 95 and Pentium that I got back to a computer. We started surfing the web ...........give me a cold beer and let's reminisce.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dan on April 12, 2009 at 9:26am: Boy, do I remember THOSE days. Yes, earlier 1541's (the lighter almost white ones) had that dang head alignment problem. Later I got the upgrade darker box, those were good, but spendy back then!
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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on April 6, 2009 at 3:54pm: Seagate ST-506 MFM (Modified Frequency Modulation) = 5MB in 1980
Seagate ST-412 MFM (Modified Frequency Modulation) =10 MB in 1981
Seagate ST-412 RLL (Run Length Limited) =10 MB in 1981

Back then Seagate was called Shugart Technology.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kildar on April 6, 2009 at 4:09pm: I am in the same era as you Zune80...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cookenstein on April 6, 2009 at 4:38pm: 10 Megabyte drive which I did not even fill halfway.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Travicemo on April 6, 2009 at 4:46pm: My first internal hard drive was 40GB.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ben Williams (BenWmsOnline) on April 6, 2009 at 4:51pm: My first was 40GB, a massive size at the time; I paid about $400/£200 extra for that hard drive... :P; ▶ Reply to This