On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 7:32 AM Clem cole <[email protected]> wrote:

> 19” form factor for the disks drive fir the space in the 19” relay rack.
> You’re right the platters themselves were smaller.  The disks were referred
> too by the mechanical FF.  19, 8, 5.25 etc.
>
>
But, 8" hard drives have 8" platters, and 5.25" hard drives have 5.25"
platters. The casing on a the 5.25" drive in front of me is almost 6" wide.

Pat
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