SE/30: Strange HDD sled found

[retrofreak83]

Hallo all,

I recently dug through my SE/30 parts collection.
A HDD carrier sled which caught my attention.
It looks quite different but still similar to the original one, but a number of points are strange to me.

I was not able to find a picture or hint for the other variant on the Internet so far.
For comparsion two pictures with an original sled and the "strange" one.

Notable differences:

• No parts number on it
• As a whole, built much more simpler, rough metal surface
• It seems as if construction was reduced to the bare minimum needed for a basic HDD fit
• no activity LED mount
• Significantly flatter overall
• cut-out metal has no rounded but sharp edges

Still, holes are very much made for HDDs.

The only thing I can think of so far:
Maybe there has been a 3rd party kit for people owning a Macintosh SE built to replace the 2nd floppy by a HDD?

 

[Phipli]

Hallo all,

I recently dug through my SE/30 parts collection.
A HDD carrier sled which caught my attention.
It looks quite different but still similar to the original one, but a number of points are strange to me.

I was not able to find a picture or hint for the other variant on the Internet so far.
For comparsion two pictures with an original sled and the "strange" one.

Notable differences:

• No parts number on it
• As a whole, built much more simpler, rough metal surface
• It seems as if construction was reduced to the bare minimum needed for a basic HDD fit
• no activity LED mount
• Significantly flatter overall
• cut-out metal has no rounded but sharp edges

Still, holes are very much made for HDDs.

The only thing I can think of so far:
Maybe there has been a 3rd party kit for people owning a Macintosh SE built to replace the 2nd floppy by a HDD?
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Looks like it mounts later disks the right way up?

There were third party disk cradles. I may have seen one similar to this online. I think I also saw a bright red one somewhere.

 

[LaPorta]

Your suspicion may be correct. In the Ma SE repair guide from Pina, he references a kit you can use to mount a slim HD and bracket farther back above the disk drives so that it clears the CRT.

 

[volvo242gt]

It's probably a variation on the adjustable aftermarket SE hard drive bracket that allows you to install a hard drive in a M5010 SE without deleting the second floppy drive. I've had two SEs so equipped. One was the SE SuperDrive machine I owned last year. The other is my current SE FDHD, which finally makes its journey from Oregon on Saturday.