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Tag: Hard Disk

  • Quick Look: a not so mysterious hard disk

    I’ve been quite busy over the holiday break, but whilst visiting my parents I found what I thought was a mystery hard disk. Here’s a photo. It has Trigem on the label, something I’ve not seen before. I didn’t know until looking closer at the drive much later that it’s…

  • A Tiny Hitachi Hard Disk

    I was given this small Hitachi hard drive that I just had to photograph and share. Here it is next to a standard sized 2.5 inch drive. Amazingly it is almost half the size of the full sized drive, and yet has 4 times the capacity. The drive was made…

  • Hardware Donation

    It’s not everyday that someone moves house, and when someone I know moved house recently they found a pile of old computer gear they didn’t want anymore. They asked me if I wanted any of it and of course I said yes! So last weekend I got this rather large…

  • Hard Disk Heaven

    Unfortunately my computers main hard disk and back up drive have once again thrown up some SMART errors, that whilst thankfully are non-fatal, have sent me into a flurry or backing everything up. This got me thinking about all the hard disks I have floating around in my collection and…