Photo: Red Hill.
Western Digital 95044A
The 95044A was identical to the 93044A except for a factory-fitted 5.25" mounting bracket, which seemed quite pointless given that fit-any-drive third-party mounting brackets were (and still are) readily available for a few dollars. For some incomprehensible reason, the bracket was designed to be almost impossible to remove without special tools.
Like the Tandon drives before them, the Western Digital 93044A/95044A twins used a peculiar fastening method for the top cover, which was simply clipped on: no screws, no tape, just several small, flimsy spring steel clips.
The resulting seal was not very trustworthy: notice all the foreign material that has entered this drive (freshly opened a few seconds before the photograph was taken).
Also note the black stepper motor at lower right and the rail-mounted head assembly. The old, slow, unreliable stepper drives were about to disappear forever, and these Western Digital units were their not-particularly-grand finale.
| Performance | 0.29 | Reliability | BA |
| Data rate | 7.8 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 3329 RPM |
| Seek time | 28ms | Actuator | Stepper |
| Platter capacity | 21.6MB | Interface | IDE mode 0 |
| AT drive type | 17 | Form | 3.5" half-height |
| 93044A/95044A | 43.2MB | 4 thin-film heads |