The Oldest Working Seagate Drive In The UK

[DaveP]

Seagate reckons it has found the oldest working Seagate disk drive in the UK: a 28-year-old ST-412 disk drive from 1983.

A desktop PC today could use a 3TB Barracuda disk: five platters with 10 read/write heads, spinning at 7,200rpm, and costing £190. In £/GB terms the ST-412 costs £26,300/GB while the Barracuda costs £0.06/GB. The recently launched GoFlex Slim costs £0.25/GB...

Source: It's the oldest working Seagate drive in the UK ? The Register

[eejit]

That is pretty cool.