but those were typically add-on devices and had a degree of compatibility issues vs 3.5" drives which were standard equipment for well over a decade whether you wanted them or not. Also, widespread 5.25" drive usage ended 10-15 years before 3.5" drives were superseded by flash.ģ.5" was also the last widely used removable magnetic disc and used by virtually everyone for a time for backups, in all kinds of industrial devices etc the way microSD cards are today. I remember my last 5.25" drive costing ~2x more than a 3.5" drive in the mid-90's. There were likely at least a couple of orders of magnitude more 3.5" drives in use in their time than 5.25" drives were in theirs. ![]() ![]() ![]() You vastly underestimate the production gap between those two drive types.
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