Chingzilla

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If they sold it a $400 they'd be at a loss, at $300 they would crash the desktop market. People would by it for general desktop use. Similar how so many PS2 were bought just because it was the cheapest DVD player and didn't buy games.

Hell, there was a supercomputers built with PS3 clusters. Maybe that explains why the Steam Machine only has a 1Gbps nic...

Man, I remember lusting over getting a WD Raptor back in the day. They were so much more expensive and lower data density it I couldn't justify for my low budget.

As was already said, 160 was pretty common, think increments of 20 or 40 is what i remember. Raptor drives had kinda odd size increments compared to other consumer drives. Looks like it would be 36Gb circa 2003.

I once got some retired scsi drives. Man 10,000rpm drives were loud and hot...

Thanks for bringing back some old memories