Old Disc Drives

Synopsis

This site centralizes my hobby of collecting old hard disk drives.
I started it back in 2000 and have sporadically updated it ever since.

Introduction
Every hobby should have an introductory section.

Information
About hard disk drives. Construction, principle of operation, and more.

MFM Hard Disk Drives
Also called Winchester drives, these were the first real candidates for personal computer mass storage purposes.

RLL Hard Disk Drives
RLL encoding was only normal technological progress, directly based on the old MFM standard.

Historical IDE Hard Disk Drives
Drives with capacities below the 2.5 Gb threshold. Theses are XT or AT compatible, up to the ATA-3 standard.

Modern IDE Hard Disk Drives
Any IDE drive with a capacity above the 2.5 Gb threshold. These often comply to the ATA-3 and up standards.

SATA Hard Disk Drives
Very large capacity magnetical drives using a high speed serial interface for data communication.

SCSI Hard Disk Drives
SCSI was and still is the technological pinnacle for storage devices, employing fast data transfer capabilities.

The content of this site is provided on an AS-IS basis. No warranties whatsoever.
This is a hobby project.