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3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956

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I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's dollars that would be like $1500 or more.

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956

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I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's dollars that would be like $1500 or more.

Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed that big new
har drive. Now I just buy what I want :)
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Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956

I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive
was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's
dollars that would be like $1500 or more.

Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed
that big new har drive.

I decided I didn't. I'm posting this now from a slightly older PC
with a 2,111MB HDD. IDE though, not SCSI.

Now I just buy what I want :)

Like with this old PC (bought second-hand from a school), I
find the gear people are getting rid of more than sufficient. I
recently upgraded to using a 500GB USB HDD for storing videos,
bought second-hand at a market for $5 sometime pre-COVID. I did
keep one 4TB SATA HDD from a used NAS I parted out a couple of
years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?
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On 15 Feb 2025 09:03:38 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956

I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive
was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's
dollars that would be like $1500 or more.

Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed
that big new har drive.

I decided I didn't. I'm posting this now from a slightly older PC
with a 2,111MB HDD. IDE though, not SCSI.

Now I just buy what I want :)

Like with this old PC (bought second-hand from a school), I
find the gear people are getting rid of more than sufficient. I
recently upgraded to using a 500GB USB HDD for storing videos,
bought second-hand at a market for $5 sometime pre-COVID. I did
keep one 4TB SATA HDD from a used NAS I parted out a couple of
years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?

I have a lot of old pc parts laying around. I'm not even sure what I have,
but I'm sure I could build numerous old pcs from the parts. I just haven't found a reason to yet and I don't want to dispose of the stuff.

Maybe I'll go to the next Hamfest and sell a bunch of it. It goes pretty
well there.
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years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?

i heard a few people has petabytes of
tv shows and movies in there nas.

.and files are only getting bigger.
with the videos files 4k etc.

good thing my tv is still a 19" 4:3
crt :)


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prysm1 <prysm1@cw.qc.to> wrote:

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years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?

i heard a few people has petabytes of
tv shows and movies in there nas.

.and files are only getting bigger.
with the videos files 4k etc.

good thing my tv is still a 19" 4:3
crt :)

25" CRT here! I download the lowest resolution from YouTube or
convert other video files down to similar resolution. If I were
forced to only use 4K video files I just wouldn't bother keeping so
much. Besides needing lots of huge HDDs, just the overhead of doing
things like backups would be way more hassle.
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