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Western Digital Caviar 1210

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The Flickr Lounge: Weekly Challenge #50 - Old Stuff lying around

 

Inside of a Western Digital Caviar 1210 Hard Drive manufactured 29 July 1994.

 

At that stage the capacity was a massive 212.6 MB.

(If I am lucky I will be able to save 4 of my Canon 5Div *.CR2 RAW Files on it!)

 

To put that into perspective:

1024 MB in a Gigabyte.

Today we buy hard drives designated in Terrabytes and there are 1024 GB in a Terrabyte.

 

The platter is about 94mm in diameter and is a very highly reflective goldish dark brown.

 

It is somewhat reminiscent of an old record player, isn't it?

 

Sasolburg

South Africa

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Uploaded on December 13, 2018
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