the red hill hardware guide

Classic hard drives:

Old Gold: classic drives we used to love and hate

More Old Gold (52 to 428MB)

Still more Old Gold (540MB to 2.5GB)

1997 drives (2.1 to 8.4GB)

1998 drives (2.1 to 19.3GB)

1999 drives (3.2 to 28GB)

2000 drives (7.5 to 75GB)

2001 drives (10 to 80GB)

2002 drives (20 to 120GB)

2003 drives (80 to 160GB)

Context and background:

Odd drives: the weird and the wonderful

Assessing reliability

Assessing performance

The hard drive manufacturers

Elite 9 (Seagate).