When did 7200RPM drives...

[goku2100]

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...

 

[senseless]

uhm, like 97-98?

 

[goku2100]

What size did they come in?

 

[dakta]

why do you want one? I beleive ive got a 40mb ide here somewhere...

 

[desiboi]

Not 97, no way, I got my PC back then, 55RPM, best one available back then.

 

[Trifid]

1998 I got a 10gb 5500rpm harddrive for my old 450mhz p3, probally in the 21st century sometime.


40mb??? That is small.

 

[desiboi]

Mine wasn't 5500RPM, just 55 RPM, 6.02GB.

 

[Trifid]

55rpm?????

I bet it was silent when not loading anything.

 

[desiboi]

Dude, it was helll!!!!!!! It took about ten minutes just to boot up with 2 GB on the Disk. Some crap I bought. And it was loud as hell, for some weird reason.

 

[dhw200]

i was pulling an 8 gig hard drive that was from 97-98 computer yesterday, it was about 55,000 RPM. I think the 7200s debuted in 2000-2001.