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It was garage sale day, and I went digging through my closet and attic and found an old gem that I bought at a previous garage sale a few years ago for a couple bucks: a Maxtor 30gb IDE drive from around 2000-2001. Not super old, but definitely outdated.

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These baby's went for $200+ new, if memory serves me right, pretty top of the line in 2001. I remember my family's pc had a 4gb hard drive back in the days of windows 98, so this would have been a god send to me so I could have fit more games.

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30GB is nothing now, haha.

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wow thaats awesome!

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I'm almost tempted to put together a system with IDE interface so I can play with it.

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I think i had one in my scaleo 800s back then too  :o That's awesome

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WHOA 30GB THATS AMAZING!

My PC only has 16 bytes of storage, and 12 of them are used by the OS.

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the smallest one i currently have is 40gb  :lol:

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I still have a 512MB drive dusting somewhere...

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I'm almost tempted to put together a system with IDE interface so I can play with it.

Do it!!

 

And post a retro build log!

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it's funny bcoz , i have one lying around somewhere, 40 gigs , dead. but still there,.. :lol:

Details separate people.

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Why not use an adapter and test it in your current system?

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Jesus I have two small USB flash drives totalling 32GB :P

 

Also does that drive still work?

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Do it!!

 

And post a retro build log!

I'm thinking about it. Next time I see some parts ultra cheap on eBay I might snag it.

  

Why not use an adapter and test it in your current system?

Too easy :P
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That packaging...now you're lucky if they even turn up in an anti static bag.

I know, right? The packaging in this thing puts almost everything else to shame.

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Damn, the good old days. Craptasic IDE :D

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Damn, the good old days. Craptasic IDE :D

 

Hey, that was good in the day mate. SATA 3 and SATA 4 will be complete shit one day :)

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Hey, that was good in the day mate. SATA 3 and SATA 4 will be complete shit one day :)

Oh trust me i know, my first HDD was 8GB lol

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Wow. A Maxtor! And that box! I wish they would send drives like that still...

 

 

I have a bookshelf full of IDE Maxtor drives, mostly 20gb. If only I could magically turn them into SATA. lol

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At least it's 7200rpm. That's still the standard for your average 1TB hard drive these days.

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ssd quality back in 2001

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I wonder how much that cost when It was just released...

Sorry for the convoluted speech pattern.

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