Talk:Quantum Bigfoot

More Pictures

Took a picture of an old one I had: Quantum Bigfoot hard drive-20090206-jhansonxi.jpg Jhansonxi (talk) 19:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

The Internet Archive

For future reference by myself or anyone else interested, the Internet Archive has archived copies of Quantum's web site when they still had information about the Bigfoot series available.

Quantum's product archive as of March 1, 2000

Quantum Bigfoot CY overview
Quantum Bigfoot TX overview
Quantum Bigfoot TS overview

xx521xx (talk) 10:59, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, I just (finally) added some of this information in the form of a series section. I've switched the stub template to an expansion template since this information makes the article rather long for a stub, I think. However, I haven't dealt with most of the information that was here previously aside from some minor grammar and formatting fixes. I integrated the information on capacities and interface into the series section, but everything else basically got thrown into the lead, so that should be cleaned up sometime. xx521xx (talk) 14:18, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, I may be talking to myself here, but I just noticed that some capacities that were listed before have been thrown out, as they were not listed at Quantum's site. I wonder why... Clearly, at least the 1.28GB model exists, since one is pictured in the article! The full list of capacities that were dropped:

• 1.28GB
• 1.6GB
• 2.5GB
• 3.2GB
• 8GB
• 10GB
• 13GB

Will have to see whether I can find a source for the existence of these models, and which series they belong to, later. xx521xx (talk) 12:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

2.5 GB exist. Type 2550AT P/N: BF25A011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.172.204.19 (talk) 11:21, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I was gonna say the same thing. I think that was the first series, introduced around 1995. It had no series designator and the largest drive in that series was the 2.5 GB one [1] with a 1.2 GB smaller brother [2]. Someone not using his real name (talk) 15:30, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Additional evidence that there was a no-suffix initial series; here's what a QDPS faq says:

Q. Can I use this utility to test my older Quantum PRO Drive LPS 240?

A. No, this utility will only test drives that are S.M.A.R.T capable. Quantum ATA series drives that can be tested by QDPS include Bigfoot, Bigfoot TX, Bigfoot CY, Fireball ST, Fireball SE, Fireball EL, Fireball EX, Fireball CR, Fireball Plus KA, and Fireball Plus KX. Quantum SCSI series drives that can be tested by QDPS include Atlas III, Atlas IV, Atlas 10K, and Viking II.

The TX series did not exist when I captured that web page to a CD, around 1998, together with the QDPS utility. Someone can probably find it on archive.org if they dig enough. Archive.org didn't index Quatum's website before Oct-Nov 1996 though, so no trace of the product web site announcements for the first Bigfoots (assuming Quatum even had a web site then), although they are in PC Magazine of May 1996. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Ok, I found the specs for the original two drives on archive.org: [3]. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

New mystery

Apparently there were two 2.1 GB Bigfoot drives. The one from the CY series is well-known. Assuming there's no documentation error involved, the one Seagate claims here was part of the original series must have been introduced later (even later than the 2.1GB CY!) because it doesn't appear on Quatum's site in Nov 1996! It's also unclear how that was made, because it's still listed as 2 platter. Perhaps they short-stroked some 2.5 GB drives... Someone not using his real name (talk) 20:15, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

I think the original-series 2.1 GB drive might not even be a different physical drive, but simply the 2.5 GB one when used in a computer that had the 2.1 GB (BIOS) storage limit [4]. Someone not using his real name (talk) 20:37, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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