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Default OT - "Worlds Most Expensive Hard Drive Teardown"

On 09/12/2012 02:26, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:05:24 +0000, polygonum wrote:
When I started out the site was starting to convert from EDS60 to to
EDS200 - exchangeable 60MB to exchangeable 200MB. Packs as heavy as you
could manage with one arm - I'd guess something towards 18" across


I think the platters were probably 14", with the casing adding another
inch or two to that.

Something inside my brain seemed to suggest that they were twice an 8
inch floppy plus a bit! But on the basis that everything seems to derive
in one way or another from a 19-inch rack, I think that 18 inches would
not have left enough physical strength - so I will go along with "around
16 inches" - giving one and a half inches at each side.

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Rod