5mm disk drive!

It is quite impressive that they can get 1TB into that size! I think the SSD's can give you higher capacity at a smaller size than that though, but at a price :D

I can still remember the days of my 10MB HDD and the days before that when I used dual floppy drives only.
 
I unpacked a box full of old computer stuff this weekend. And one of the items I found was my Quantum Fireball hard drive. This big aluminum block the size of a dvd drive. 6 Gb - cost me R1200 when I bought it as a student.
Best of all - it still works. Connected it to a old ATX case, booted it up into trusty Windows 98 and played a game of Rise of the Triad.
 
These new WD ultra thin drives are completely different internally than normal 2.5" drives, much more robust. The Black also has NAND cache. And also a completely different connector, one that integrates data + power in one, namely SFF-8784 edge connector.

We post a lot of the new HDD and storage news and interesting storage reviews on our FB page if you guys are interesting in following:
www.facebook.com/Southbit
 
This new interface intrigues me - SFF-8784 edge connector
I was talking to a collegue who told me that the Western Digtial External drives have a different connector to SATA, and that you cannot take the disk out of an external casing and connect it using SATA.

I once tried to get data off a video camera hard drive, that was attached using a ribbon cable, couldn't do it as I couldn't connect to it.

Anyone have info on this?
 
Electron1 said:
This new interface intrigues me - SFF-8784 edge connector
I was talking to a collegue who told me that the Western Digtial External drives have a different connector to SATA, and that you cannot take the disk out of an external casing and connect it using SATA.

I once tried to get data off a video camera hard drive, that was attached using a ribbon cable, couldn't do it as I couldn't connect to it.

Anyone have info on this?
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You're probably referring to a ZIF connector if it's a ribbon. The old first gen Mac Book Airs use these ribbon cables (ZIF). You just need the right adapter for it. Not a new thing, old tech.
 
You would be sure to expect some adapters to become available in the near future.
 
SouthBit said:
You're probably referring to a ZIF connector if it's a ribbon. The old first gen Mac Book Airs use these ribbon cables (ZIF). You just need the right adapter for it. Not a new thing, old tech.
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Thanks for the info. What I was asking was are there other common interfaces for Hard Drives besides IDE / SCSI / SATA (not the old MFM/RLL - just current standards).
 
Pada said:
I can still remember the days of my 10MB HDD and the days before that when I used dual floppy drives only.
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I can remember attempting data recovery on the old 5.25" 10MB drives by playing with the mounting screws (loosen two, tighten 2 etc) - amazingly it sometimes worked :D
 
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