The remains of my Quantum 80 MB HD: http://macgui.com/gallery/showphoto.php?pic_id=1286
That was my first hard drive, used in the SE/30. It just got harder and harder to spin up as the years went by. xx(

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Hah, I had an 80MB ProDrive ELS as my very first hard drive (the original drive in my very first LCIII) too. Mine is also dead, though it died in 1999.

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That photo is from Feb 2010, but the last time I successfully booted from that disk was sometime in 2009. No idea when. The sticker on the drive says EPROM 1992. I have reason to believe that it wasn't the original HD in the SE/30, which I think came from ISU.

I have the startup sound of that HD burned into my brain. I first got the SE/30 in 1998 and had it until about 2001 or so. I continued using the drive in a Quadra 605 which was given to me sans-HD.