The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats such as the older 8″ discs were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world.

Toshiba Corp. will begin mass-producing a 60G-byte, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive before the end of the year, it said Wednesday. Such drives are commonly used in digital music players and sub-notebook ...

Reviving An 8-Inch Hard Drive From The 1980s. 17 Comments . by: Maya Posch. August 8, 2023. ... A CDC Finch hard disk drive, available in 8 to 32 MB for all your data storage needs.

The floppy disk era ended with the 3.5-inch disk being the last hoorah for this beloved era of computing. Capable of holding memory in sizes from 720 KB to 1.44 MB, ...

Early Macs used a proprietary floppy disk format, and once a Mac 3.5-inch disk was create,d it couldn't be read on the IBM PC standard. This made file transfers between the two types of computers ...

Now the technology has made its way into even smaller 2.5-inch drives from Fujitsu. The MHX2300BT series of SATA drives were created specifically for laptops, and will be available with 250GB or ...