...and yes I bought this in spite of the cost. Back four years ago when I bought these, other SCSI solutions were more expensive than they are now and definitely harder to work with, so in the scheme of things it seemed like a better deal than it would be now. A part of me also wanted to test out what would happen to these. At the time, I didn't have an opportunity to put it in the put it in a Mac, but the other day, I finally had my Mac II set up, needed a drive and this seemed like the perfect fit, so I formatted it, loaded it with 6.0.8 and put some additional items on it.
It died on the third reboot.
I took it apart and the rubber bumps had just enough structure to keep it together for a few more hits, but it had reached the point of being 'grabby' on the outside. When I probed the bumper further in, it held the goo inside. This drive is done. Well, the
There are so many times that I see an old thread like this and I wonder, 'Hmmm, did anyone buy those? Did they work out (or not?)' In this case I can let everyone know that from my small sample size, that maybe, if I had used them right away, I might have gotten more time out of them, but basically, a 30 year old hard drive has 30 year old parts that will not last much longer.
