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Amazing find. Just curious-why would anyone buy this today? For retro-computing/nostalgia??

• smashed 5y ago
  And who would on to such stock?? Surely these are not still manufactured??
• a-dub 5y ago
  if i recall a few years later, i had an hp9000 at work that had an array of them. it wouldn't surprise me one bit if there were still hp9000s, as/400s or other similar datacenter class unix(ish) server hardware out there that is still in production where replacing a failed disk with the exact same model, even if refurbed, is the safest option for solving the problem with old hardware that can be difficult to replace running software that isn't backed up that no one even understands, yet is critical to some large business.
  • a-dub 5y ago
    as another point of trivia, i'll add that it was easy to find because of the memorable seagate model number scheme. ST12550N ST - seagate technologies 1 - 3.5" full height 2550 - unformatted capacity N - fast scsi if i recall, this scheme went all the way back to the early 80s.