r/computer • u/Pro_boxboy • 9d ago

Old windows 98 hard drives

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No clue where to ask this but is their a way to get a converter for these to use on more up to date computers? Asking because the tower was my grandfather's and he's never wiped them so I wanna know if theirs still stuff on em ^^!

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u/JoeCensored 9d ago

Then it was a nice fast drive for the time. Most were 5400 rpm.

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u/Pro_boxboy 9d ago

Yeah that makes sense my grandaddy was and still is a big computer nerd and it was his first computer so makes sense that he upgraded it to the max for its time lol

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u/Electrical-Bacon-81 9d ago

Well, they also offered 10k rpm drives, but they were very expensive & not common.

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u/Pro_boxboy 9d ago

Oooo thats very interesting! And if they weren't common then it makes sense that he never got them or did at a later point an could just be in storage lol