OT - 486 w/newer IDE drives

[9000 VAX]

On 11/23/06, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
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> > Does anyone really care about the smaller (<2GB) 3.5" drives anymore?
>
> I do.
>
> In rough order of usefulness:
>
> - 50-pin SCSI


I bought some 20x 1G 50pin SCSI disks from ebay for $17.

- Parallel IDE
> - 80-pin SCA SCSI
> - 68-pin SCSI
>
> Serial ATA is of no use whatever to me - though I doubt you'll have any
> SATA in that size range.
>
> But anything under about 1G is of little value even to me, and those
> incredibly noisy 2G Seagate Barracudas are lower on the value list than
> the above info otherwise implies - their whine is just too piercing.
>
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