{"id":92,"date":"2007-11-22T05:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:30:25","slug":"they-dont-makem-like-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"They don&#8217;t make&#8217;m like they used to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I &#8220;retired&#8221; an old external drive from a sun machine at work. It was starting to show bad sectors and I\/O errors so I set off to replace it with something newer. When I got the old external drive down to the lab I decided to rescue the SCSI enclosure as they are often useful. When I opened it up I saw a full height monster of a drive, the Seagate Elite 3.<\/p>\n<p>The elite 3 dates back to 1992, at the time 2.9 GB of space would have been an amazing amount. I had 850mb in my new pentium 75mhz machine in early 1996 and I thought that was quite a bit. Skip ahead to today, it&#8217;s amazing that a drive like that can survive for that many years, in production! It has 11 disk platters inside and weighs an amazing 7.9 lbs! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/elite3_1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/elite3_1.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Seagate Elite 3\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a drive of similar size but with today&#8217;s perpendicular recording, I&#8217;m sure you could cram several TB in the same form factor. This elite 3 will make a great desk item for my office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/elite3_2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/elite3_2.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eleven platters of goodness\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-94\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I &#8220;retired&#8221; an old external drive from a sun machine at work. It was starting to show bad sectors and I\/O errors so I set off to replace it with something newer. When I got the old external drive down to the lab I decided to rescue the SCSI enclosure as they are often &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They don&#8217;t make&#8217;m like they used to&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}