I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you're recovering well from that situation, that's really awful. Perhaps you'll find another 280 one day to make a video on, so sorry it was lost! The early Caviar's like that are really interesting.
Great to hear this unit is in perfect shape! It looks perfect on the outside too! If I had to decide between one of these and a Medalist 4321, it would be a hard choice!
I'm slowly adding to my collection and now safe in the knowledge that I can use my BlueSCSI card so I can save all my working SCSI drives for the future!
Always great to hear another collection coming together, I wish you all the best with expanding it! The BlueSCSI will surely help, old 50-pin SCSI drives are really getting to be ridiculously expensive! I'm sure in coming years those working drives will be even more valuable!
@@bigbluebananabread Thankfully there are enough people who do not know their value and I am still finding 5.25" full height 500mb and 1 GB working drives for $10.00!
Well hello there! It has been more than a year since I posted my last HDD video (since I ran out of content) I still like enjoying hard drive videos but I don’t think I’ll ever get back to it (only if I’m lucky and I find a stepper HDD). Nice video!
It's really nice to hear from you! I see your videos on my feed and check them out now and again, although I often struggle with what to comment since I don't know as much about the topics :) If you ever pick up any interesting drives, I'd love to see a video on them! Always nice to see stuff like that, so I'm glad you're still around, thanks for watching :)
@@bigbluebananabread No problem my friend! Once a viewer always a viewer! When I see a hard drive on my feed I always watch it since I love the way they work! I’m glad that you watch my new kind of topic! If I am ever lucky and find an interesting old hard drive I’ll post it!
Hey! I really enjoy watching your HDD videos. I was wondering if you have any extra SCSI drives lying around that I could put to use In my macintosh. The drive it has is dead and in disrepair. I would be willing to buy.
Thanks very much for watching, I really appreciate it! Unfortunately I don't have many SCSI drives in great shape (this is of 50pin & 68pin variants, a lot have been dying in my collection unfortunately or have a lot of problems). Of the ones I have remaning I have intent to use them in most cases (be in inside systems or external SCSI enclosures, which is where a lot of them have come from). I know that a few people use 80-pin SCSI drives in Macintosh systems with applicable adapters, so perhaps that's worth a go? It's a little difficult to find the correct adapter from what I've read for some systems, but it's certainly possible to do so. There's a good video here discussing it: ruclips.net/video/kHkoXQH3zME/видео.html 80-pin drives are usually very cheap, so maybe that's a direction worth going in? They still sound quite lovely & loud, so I'd certainly recommend it.
was gonna release a video on the caviar 280 5 months back but my house burned down and i could not find the drive 😔
I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you're recovering well from that situation, that's really awful. Perhaps you'll find another 280 one day to make a video on, so sorry it was lost! The early Caviar's like that are really interesting.
@@bigbluebananabread aye man thanks we is recovering good thankfuly
Great to hear this unit is in perfect shape! It looks perfect on the outside too! If I had to decide between one of these and a Medalist 4321, it would be a hard choice!
Haha, totally! The seek test for me pushes this one slightly over the edge for me i think ;)
I'm slowly adding to my collection and now safe in the knowledge that I can use my BlueSCSI card so I can save all my working SCSI drives for the future!
Always great to hear another collection coming together, I wish you all the best with expanding it! The BlueSCSI will surely help, old 50-pin SCSI drives are really getting to be ridiculously expensive! I'm sure in coming years those working drives will be even more valuable!
@@bigbluebananabread Thankfully there are enough people who do not know their value and I am still finding 5.25" full height 500mb and 1 GB working drives for $10.00!
Well hello there! It has been more than a year since I posted my last HDD video (since I ran out of content) I still like enjoying hard drive videos but I don’t think I’ll ever get back to it (only if I’m lucky and I find a stepper HDD). Nice video!
It's really nice to hear from you! I see your videos on my feed and check them out now and again, although I often struggle with what to comment since I don't know as much about the topics :)
If you ever pick up any interesting drives, I'd love to see a video on them!
Always nice to see stuff like that, so I'm glad you're still around, thanks for watching :)
@@bigbluebananabread No problem my friend! Once a viewer always a viewer! When I see a hard drive on my feed I always watch it since I love the way they work! I’m glad that you watch my new kind of topic! If I am ever lucky and find an interesting old hard drive I’ll post it!
this sounds nice
almost seems like the predecessor to the excellent 80-160gig spinpoints that came later
At least the outer HDA design, was used ever since the Winners
If only the seek-test remained as crazy as it did on these!
Hey! I really enjoy watching your HDD videos. I was wondering if you have any extra SCSI drives lying around that I could put to use In my macintosh. The drive it has is dead and in disrepair. I would be willing to buy.
Thanks very much for watching, I really appreciate it!
Unfortunately I don't have many SCSI drives in great shape (this is of 50pin & 68pin variants, a lot have been dying in my collection unfortunately or have a lot of problems). Of the ones I have remaning I have intent to use them in most cases (be in inside systems or external SCSI enclosures, which is where a lot of them have come from). I know that a few people use 80-pin SCSI drives in Macintosh systems with applicable adapters, so perhaps that's worth a go? It's a little difficult to find the correct adapter from what I've read for some systems, but it's certainly possible to do so. There's a good video here discussing it: ruclips.net/video/kHkoXQH3zME/видео.html
80-pin drives are usually very cheap, so maybe that's a direction worth going in? They still sound quite lovely & loud, so I'd certainly recommend it.
@@bigbluebananabread Thats a good idea. I'll look into it, thanks!
Might have had a few of these back in the day. I remember the seek test. It's very fast! Does this have the green activity light on the bottom?
Yes! It does indeed have a green LED on the PCB! They're really nice drives, the seek-test is quite wonderful.
hdmotion is super mesmerizing lol