10 MB HD!

How does a Hard Disk drive from the early 1980's stack up to today? Check it out.
00:01 Intro
00:14 The Shugard SA 612 Drive
01:45 Comparisons to Modern Hard Drives
03:19 Cost Per GB
04:35 Size Comparisons
05:12 A look at the SA 612
08:05 Shugart Literature
Shugard Associates Links:Shugart_Disk_Drives_Mar81.pdf - bitsavers.comp...
39026-3_SA600_Rigid_Disk_Drive_OEM_Manual_Aug83.pdf - ia903404.us.ar...
Shugart_Product_Guide_Apr83.pdf - ia903404.us.ar...
Outro Song: View of the Valley - CZcams Audio Library

[@TheTugboatpatrick]

I remember that big old beast from the lab.

[@TheNerdIsIn]

That is the one!

[@domxem5551]

That hard drive was so expensive because of the storage convenience…the 5 1/4” floppy disk (I think with 360 KB capacity) was actually way cheaper at 11k USD per GB back in 1981…..You actually had PCs with no HDD.

[@TheNerdIsIn]

Yes, but it was really fun doing the math to see how much 1 GB of these would cost in today's dollars!

[@mokkbs]

If you would just finish that Way-Back machine you might get rich selling those.

[@TheNerdIsIn]

I need to time travel back to 1983 with some 500 GB SSDs.

[@domxem5551]

@@TheNerdIsIn if you did you probably would change time making the 500 GB m.2 obsolete technology nowadays. That means you need to travel back again with whatever would exist only to find out they are obsolete again

[@Master_Cheese-kf2mm]

can you test the hard drive
if you have old computer with mfm controller or if you don't have it? use power supply

[@TheNerdIsIn]

Sadly, I have no such controller or computer that would accept the controller card if I did.

[@Master_Cheese-kf2mm]

ok
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