| The Bigfoot hard drive was a brand of hard disk marketed by Quantum Corporation in the late-1990s which featured a larger physical size than hard disks typical at the time. Typical hard drives are 3.5" in diameter, while Bigfoot hard drives were 5.25" wide and fit in a standard IBM PC drive bay. The main rationale behind the design change was that the typical PC user already owns cases that made provision for a 5.25" drive, and by using lower data densities and a larger physical size, Quantum was able to deliver the products at lower prices, thus more competitively. |
