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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker
Ehm, so how exactly are the early drives different from the later drives then?
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Two things: capacity and reliability. The earliest ones I remember held 160K, which is not enough to be useful. They also had terrible problems with data integrity and media reliability.
The 8" ones were much better; the later 5.25" drives were fine. But it took a while for them to settle down.