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Pop Quiz: Traditional hard drive types

It would be scary if you had to know those as a contemporary IT professional.

my first encounter with SCSI was with a 50 pin cable 2GB HDD and 3x CDROM

Why did you have to bring that up? Now I remember the External SCSI connectors (and the effing Traveler) for the Zip and Jaz drives, something I'd managed to forget for over a decade.

with it's 34 and 20 pin cables . . .

Argh!

And you will hear the inimitable sound of a Remington 870 pump action...

DEC RP06
sounds like a washing machine

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/rp06.html

My first encounter with SCSI was with a 50-pin ribbon cable to a 52MB (yes, Mega) hard drive, and a 25-pin DB-25 connector to an external 2x CDROM drive. This was on my Amiga A2000HD system.

LOL that was my first thought too.. would we actually see how old Bill was trying to go..

When I saw "Traditional" I though "Obsolete" and expected to see MFM/RLL too!

other than it's the latest and greatest.

I thought the IDE interface was developed by Conner Peripherals? I remember when our company bought some Intel 386 66Mhz Compaq PCs with 80MB Conner hard drives and 1 MB RAM for $10K (ouch); they were state of the art for personal computers at the time.

Not bad, considering I've never seen SAS...

(I got the SATA power connector question wrong; said it was SAS)

What amazed me is that nearly 10% (9%) of us thought that SATA ("Serial Advanced Technology [AT] Attachment") was parallel (even though ATA was retro-named to PATA ("Parallel...") just to emphasize that distinction), and 14% thought SAS was parallel (even though SAS means "Serial Attached SCSI [Small Computer System Interface]")!

I thought about spelling out all the acronyms, but worried it would give this questions away.

No wthat was an entertaining quiz

It tells me that I may have a bad bookmark when I hit your VOTE button.
This is even worse that the questions that have different numbering than the answers.

Good quiz but no pictures

Not too difficult, power connector on sata scuppered my score !

Neat 10/10! Seagate Employee