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I bet they had a raptor hard drive, something about 160 GB ticked my mind.
Increments of 80 GB were fairly common. My desktop had an 80 GB Maxtor and my laptop later had 320 GB.
In hindsight, I do not remember if the Maxtor was definitely 80 GB, or if Windows was showing it as 80-something GB. But the laptop was definitely 320. I googled it. Google AI of course said "Based on Ebay listings it seems to be 1 TB", very useful. Spec sheet says 320 GB.
Man, I remember lusting over getting a WD Raptor back in the day. They were so much more expensive and lower data density it I couldn't justify for my low budget.
As was already said, 160 was pretty common, think increments of 20 or 40 is what i remember. Raptor drives had kinda odd size increments compared to other consumer drives. Looks like it would be 36Gb circa 2003.
I once got some retired scsi drives. Man 10,000rpm drives were loud and hot...
Thanks for bringing back some old memories