The Bigfoot drives were sold as inexpensive storage back in the day. They're big because using the larger 5.25" platters enabled them to make drives with the same capacity as a 3.5" drive at a lower cost -- there are fewer platters, so there aren't as many heads. Because of the disk size, though, their access times are slow, and people used to call them "Slugfoot." A lot of OEMs used them because it was a cheap way to make a computer with an impressive amount of storage. They're definitely not the best drives of their time, and I think most of the people who are into old computers would probably avoid using them.
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