Internal 80MB SCSI Hard Drive

[Scott Baret]

Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!

 

[Aoresteen]

Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!

Why not a 2 gig? I got rid of most of my drives that were less than 512MB as when you find 2 gig drives on ebay they go cheap.

 

[MacMan]

I had one of these 80MB drives in my LC 475 server and it died, so I replaced it with another that also quickly died. Severe old age and previous abuse were probably the reasons for them packing in quickly in a server situation. It now runs with a 4.5GB 68-pin SCSI drive + adaptor.

It's always good when a surprise hard drive turns up from time to time. I keep gradually findign them around the house, long forgotten in boxes of spares from stripped machines etc.

 

[Quadraman]

Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!

Why not a 2 gig? I got rid of most of my drives that were less than 512MB as when you find 2 gig drives on ebay they go cheap.

Large capacity 50 pin scsi drives aren't usually cheap. That's why I'm lucky to have a brother in IT. I got a load of 9 and 18gig 68 pin drives with 50 pin adapters for free a few months back.

 

[Aoresteen]

Found it while cleaning out. I forgot I had it. This will be perfect for my Quadra 700, which currently has a puny 40MB inside!

Why not a 2 gig? I got rid of most of my drives that were less than 512MB as when you find 2 gig drives on ebay they go cheap.

Large capacity 50 pin scsi drives aren't usually cheap. That's why I'm lucky to have a brother in IT. I got a load of 9 and 18gig 68 pin drives with 50 pin adapters for free a few months back.

I haven't bought any 50 pin SCSI drives since Jan/Feb 2007 but back then a 2 gig would run $15 to $30 on ebay. What are they selling for now? (I'd check ebay but the net nanny here in Iraq blocks ebay).

Thanks!

 

[Unknown_K]

50 pin drives are used on a number of vintage machines, so people bid them up. 68/SCA tend to go much cheaper (but the adapters and sca converters cost a few dollars).

I don't toss any of my working drives, the ones with major read errors get the controller board removed (for parts like capacitors, edge connectors, and RAM chips) and the rest junked. Everything I get is tested and put on the shelf for when I need it. Oddly enough smaller capacity IDE is getting harder to find too.