Originally posted by: hansmuff
Originally posted by: funboy42
Why dont they just go back to the 5 1/4 size and make some 20-30tb drives then? I just took apart a 40mb old Mitsubishi drive that was 5 1/4, and I have but one dvd drive in my case with 3 more opening for that size, so why not go back to making them that big, you could make one hell of a size with 5 1/4 I would think And prolly cheap too.
Actually, Quantum tried that route with the BigFoot drives a couple of years ago.
5 1/4" drives, low rotational speed.
Pro: Cheap
Con: VERY slow (the seek times were crazy because of the large platters and low rotational speed)
In the end, the BigFoot drives died pretty quickly. If you want to pursue your thought further, googling that particular model might help.