Does anyone have a use for a 4 gig IDE Hard Drive?

[Flitterkill]

Cleaning out computer supplies. Western Digital 24300 4.3 gig HD, IDE interface, formatted to FAT32. Works over a USB interface.

 

You pay shipping, it's all yours.

 

I also have two Conner 420 megabyte HDs and a 214 megabyte Seagate. They spin up on USB but Win 7 wants to initialize them (fine by me) but it errors out. I've tried them inside a box some years past but ran into the problem that bios would rage through boot up so fast that the drives never had time to spin up to recognizable speed

 

Not sure what to do with those...

 

-Fk

[JordanRinke]

Take them apart and make art out of them or make something unusual. The last set of old HDD's I had I used some epoxy and the faceplate of a server to make a shelf for my monitor to sit on :-D

[Unclean]

Take them apart and make art out of them or make something unusual. The last set of old HDD's I had I used some epoxy and the faceplate of a server to make a shelf for my monitor to sit on :-D

Cool idea! Have pics?

[JordanRinke]

No, unfortunately I built it at work using trash server parts so... it stayed at my last place of employment.

[bushwack]

Build a retro rig, relive your childhood. Here is mine, complete with a IBM 4.3gig HDD.

 

Abit AB-TX5 [intel 430TX chipset]

Pentium 200 MMX [intel Socket 7]

64MB PC66 SDRAM

IBM Deskstar DCAA-34330 4.3gig 5400rpm Hard drive

Hitachi CDR-8130 16x CD-ROM

Mitsumi 1.44 floppy

Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro 4MB PCI [s3 ViRGE DX]

Orchid Righteous 3D 4MB PCI [3Dfx Voodoo]

VideoLogic Apocolypse 3Dx 4MB PCI [NEC PowerVR PCX2]

Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold ISA

KTI 10Mbps PCI NIC

Enlight 4 bay tower case

Enlight 250w AT power supply

OS: Win95/DOS

 

Pictures have changed slightly, the top HDD now holds a spare IBM 4.3 but not hooked up and there's a AWE64 Gold instead the pictured Value card.

 

 

Edited January 19, 2010 by bushwack

[Laz.e.rus]

no more 40s for you.....

[JordanRinke]

speaking of 40's I just bought some of these hhaha http://www.40cozy.com/

[Flitterkill]

All fine ideas, but for the retro rig - I have so much crap around now, there is no way I can remotely justify such a thing. Not to mention the emulation of old PC's in virtual machines has come a *long* way in the last few years (I can play Warlords II Deluxe now! Hooray!)...

 

I did get an idea of what to do with it though I'll keep that to myself for now

 

-Fk