Comments on: Hard Drive History Lesson: MiniScribe and the Brick Fiasco https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/the-first-hard-drive-to-brick/ Professional Data Recovery Services Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.7 By: Hard Drive History Lesson: The PC AT and CMI's Burial at Sea | Gillware https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/the-first-hard-drive-to-brick/#comment-566 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:11:42 +0000 http://blog.www.gillware.com/?p=1193#comment-566 […] Hard disk drives might seem like a dry subject. But the history of hard disk drives and their evolution from five-megabyte fridge-sized monstrosities to five hundred gigabyte drives smaller than a deck of playing cards is anything but. In the HDD industry, players both major and minor have exhibited all sorts of bizarre behaviors, such as the creators of the MiniScribe intentionally replacing their hard drives with literal bricks. […]

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