When did 7200RPM drives...

[Qwert]

Okay, How could eigher of you had a 55RPM or a 55000RPM. 55RPM seems too slow to have existed beyond the early 80's, which was before I was even born. And 55000RPM if futuristic. I have not seen a HD with more then 15000RPM.

 

[goku2100]

They're just exaggerating... 55RPM drives have NEVER existed. I think early drives in the 70s and 80s were 1700RPM IIRC.

 

[desiboi]

Well, that's what some technician told me.

 

[SkyHi]

2000

 

[grego]

I got a 733mhz PII gateway in 97-98 with a 30GB 7200rpm drive. It wasnt a particularly extravagent model either...

 

[goku2100]

I got a 733mhz PII gateway in 97-98 with a 30GB 7200rpm drive. It wasnt a particularly extravagent model either...

No you didn't... They didn't have a 733MHZ CPU back in '97 and I know this for a fact, let alone a PII... A 733MHZ CPU would have been around late 1999-2000..

 

[Apokalipse]

they became common after about 1999, when 20GB and 40GB were common sizes

 

[Harper]

When did 7200RPM drives first starting to become common place in computers/store shelves? Were they available in 1995? 1997!?
What about drives with 8ms average seek time? Remember I'm talking about IDE drives and not SCSI drives...

That was still a noticable difference in price until about late 2001 between 5400 and 7200 rpm

I got a 733mhz PII gateway in 97-98 with a 30GB 7200rpm drive. It wasnt a particularly extravagent model either...

B.S.!!!!!

P-II stopped at 550Mhz. They never got highter that that. And they were the fastest processors in 1998.

There is no way that you could of had a 733 Mhz CPU back then.

AS for 30Gb hard drive...... DON'T THING SO. I remember 1999, and 20Gb was the BIGGEST thing that you could get.

BTW, I have been working in the computer hardware service and repair since 1997, so you might want to be careful on who you think you are fooling there.