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The 3.5 inch figure represents the floppy, remember that? :) A "3.5in HDD" is a hard disk that fits into the bay originally designed to hold a drive for 3.5" fl
by c3o 16y ago
The 3.5 inch figure represents the floppy, remember that? :)
A "3.5in HDD" is a hard disk that fits into the bay originally designed to hold a drive for 3.5" floppy disks.
- chancho 16y agoSo then why are laptop hard drives called 2.5in?
- SamReidHughes 16y agoBecause they're smaller.
- plorkyeran 16y agoBecause 2.4" sounds worse. (3.5 * 69.9 / 102 = 2.3985)
- megablast 16y agoI thought it wass due to the fact that the platters are 3.5", just as the 2.5" hd has 2.5" size platters. But no, looked it up, 3.5" have platter sizes of 3.74" apparently, 5.25" had 5.12" platters. Which makes sense when you look at a hdd with the top off.