Maxtor 90432D3 4.3GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive 5400RPM ATA Dell DP/N 1181E

Maxtor 90432D3 4.3GB 3.5" IDE Hard Drive 5400RPM ATA Dell DP/N 1181E

The Maxtor 90432D3 is a 3.5-inch internal hard drive with a 4.3GB capacity, running at 5400RPM over a parallel ATA (IDE/PATA) interface. This drive was manufactured in Singapore in April 1998 and carries the Dell factory part number DP/N 1181E, indicating it was sourced or qualified for Dell desktop systems of that era. It has been tested, formatted, and wiped at our facility and is in good working order.

Specifications & What's Included

• Model: Maxtor 90432D3
• Capacity: 4.3 GB
• Interface: IDE / ATA (PATA), 40-pin connector
• Form Factor: 3.5-inch
• Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
• Cylinders: 8,374
• Heads: 16
• Sectors per Track: 63
• HDA/Uplevel: 03A
• PCBA/Uplevel: 04A
• Unique/Uplevel: 01A
• Jumper (J50): Master/Single = On; Slave = Off
• Dell DP/N: 1181E
• Country of Manufacture: Singapore
• Manufacture Date: April 23, 1998
• Power: 12V / 5V (standard 4-pin Molex)
• Certifications: UL, CE, TÜV (visible on label)
• Drive only included; no cables or mounting hardware

Applications

This Maxtor 90432D3 is a mid-to-late 1990s IDE hard drive from the era when PATA (parallel ATA) was the dominant desktop storage interface, before Serial ATA (SATA) became standard in the early 2000s. Drives like this were widely used in desktop PCs, workstations, and entry-level servers running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and early Windows 2000 environments. The Dell DP/N designation makes it a suitable replacement in late-1990s Dell Dimension, OptiPlex, and similar desktop systems that originally shipped with ATA drives of this capacity class. Today, drives of this type are sought by collectors and technicians maintaining legacy systems, vintage PC builds, retro computing projects, and period-correct restorations where modern SATA drives are incompatible with the original IDE controller or BIOS. Capacity limits imposed by older BIOS versions (such as the 2.1GB, 4.2GB, and 8.4GB ATA barriers) make this 4.3GB drive a practical choice for systems that cannot address larger drives without additional hardware.