Talk:HP 7935

Cleanup
I have added several references and there are a couple more internal links from other pages. Is this sufficient? Mikebar (talk) 00:59, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Without objection, I will remove the cleanup and orphan templates within a week. Mikebar (talk) 00:42, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No objections received within 10 days, tags removed. Mikebar (talk) 17:24, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

MB vs MiB, a marketing evolution
I believe this device may have been instrumental in the transition of industry-wide disk drive marketing from units in powers-of-two to units of powers-of-ten. Prior HP disk drives were marketed in terms of their actual MiB (then also called "MB") (factor of 1024 * 1024) size, but for this drive that would have resulted in a capacity of 385 "old MB", whereas by switching to millions of bytes (1,000,000) the capacity increased to 404 "new MB" thus pushing it across the psychologically impressive 400 number. All subsequent HP disk models were marketed using the modern convention of using factors of 1,000,000. I continue to keep an eye out for confirmation of this from people involved in marketing at both HP and other drive manufacturers. -- GS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.227.181.14 (talk) 16:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Could very well be. If you find a citation, please add or post a link here and I can add as it would be a significant note.  Mikebar (talk) 16:06, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Assessment
Article title: HP 7935

Requester: Mikebar

Request date: 28 April 2010

Assessor: Maarten 1963

Assessment date: 5 May 2012

Presentation: good

Spelling: very good

Grammar: mediocre

Style: poor

Structure: poor

Trustworthiness: good

Explanation: The power of the motor as such is not the cause of vibrations.

Completeness: mediocre

Explanation: There is not a photograph of the machine as a finished or operational product. There is also no information on access time, read and write speeds, noise levels, and power consumption.

Notability: questionable

Explanation: Although there are 9 references, all are to primary sources. And all sources are by Hewlett Packard. Therefore, the article may dissatisfy the requirements for notability presented in Notability.

Common sense: An outdated hard disk drive must be remarkable in the history of hard disk drives for writing a separate Wikipedia article about it. The article provides no evidence for this.

Research:
 * The Wikipedia article History of hard disk drives does not mention the HP 7935.
 * The Wikipedia article Hard disk drive mentions the HP 7935, but only as an example of a hard disk drive that had the size of a washing machine.
 * The Wikipedia article Hewlett Packard mentions the HP 7935, but only as an example of attached storage for the HP 9000 series minicomputers.

Conclusion: Research confirms that notability is questionable.

Class: Stub

Importance: Low

Note: This assessment will not be explained any further.

Signature: Maarten 1963 (talk) 13:30, 5 May 2012 (UTC)


 * The request date was copied correctly, but is incorrect. The assessment request was actually made on 28 April 2011. It was made on WikiProject Computer Security/Assessment, although the article had been assigned to WikiProject Computing. --Maarten 1963 (talk) 13:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)