Will this ancient SCSI hard drive work? 

i made a gyroscope out of 1 years ago but i dont recommend this, it is a waste of a good drive, the 1 i used was dead lol, i removed the heads, the spacers and doubled up the number of platters for weight, it didnt care that it has no read heads, it would just spin up and run when 5+12v was applied, i wonder where it is..... i still have it...SOMEWHERE lol

Install CP/m and have practically infinite storage

I somehow ended up with a 400 meg SCSI hard drive once. I reformatted it and then copied a single mp3 file which nearly filled it up, and then I just left it that way.

put it in a soundproof room!

Give it as a burn offering to the sky gods

This makes me want to take exta care when I dispose of an old hard drive! I took a magnet and then a hammer to the last one to impede any data recovery efforts.

Thankfully it's not as bad as later 3.5 units. But it's still pretty dang loud!

I have a 5.25” 6 bay RAID with sequential start. Now THAT is noisy AF!!! Takes for ever to spin up. Sounds like a whole fighter squadron revving up on the deck.

​@@mixmashandtinker3266Please upload a video of it!

Got one of these beasts in 1992 for my i486 PC and used it till 2000. It was a 1 Gig Maxtor drive, at the time it ran around $4,000, but got it real cheap ($0). ;)

Nope, the Wren drives don't have this curving down sheet metal lid. This really is an HP made drive, believe it or not!

All of my 5.25" full height SCSI drives unfortunately have failed. Still trying to find the first one that works.

@@McVaio if you've got the ones that for sure are self-parking, almost 90% of the time you can get a stuck one to spin up if you turn it over and thump the center of the spindle just right or whatever you can do to free up the motor

@@Drmcclung They're spinning up but they don't initialize at all, except for one. And that one has so much surface damage that I can't even reinitialize the FAT.

What physical size is it? Most of the SCSI Drives I've run into were 3.5". Definitely recommend getting stuff off while you can.. they have lasted a darn long time and I assume will last longer than IDE units but probably not too much longer?

@@TechTimeTraveller It's full-size 5.25" and pretty tall, looks to be about the same size as the one in your video. I've moved to so many different places over the years with it, should get around to it one of these days. Last time I fired it up was probably early 00's or last century.

The USGS has a "Research Vessel David H. Peterson" !

An hero.

$4000 was a lot of money in 1990. It'd be a lot of money today! 💸

​@@TechTimeTraveller- Indeed it was and still is. However, the type of graphics work I was doing paid so well that I could afford it. :) Think about it, a mere 1 gig for 4K. lol

You wouldn't happen to know how to interface to a discus brand 24"long rack mount, it has a 50pin and 20pin connector?

@@petevenuti7355 Sounds like you are referring to a similar drive I guess? It's an SMD interface, something very obscure and difficult to find information for. I *think* it's a 'standard' that CDC developed, if that helps.

Errr, I just un-paused... Yeah... I think we're on the same page here... LOL!

I think the fart noises were a nice touch. I wish Word had more of those.

I had no idea it was anything special! But yes I won't do anything to damage or destroy it. Might even sell it if others really desire it... after I get the data offloaded somewhere. Why are they so desired? Just rarity?

@@TechTimeTraveller Legacy systems used by some businesses on machines that cannot be easily or affordably upgraded rely on these drives or their lower capacity (and even rarer) brethern. Makes it wild to me there were in a high school of all places - one assumes that would haver been more true closer to the time these drives were around. On the collectors end, because of that reliances some businesses have, they don't show up on the collector market often. The people looking to maintain these dinosaurs usually scoop them up quickly if the price doesn't break the bank. I used to have a handful of them around from my days in IBM, ones that were going to be thrown anyways and I had repaired, and even clearly labelled as repaired/as is they sold relatively quickly. Made me wonder if I should ask more.

One specific use I know they had was in certain aviation radar terminals - re-engineering that kind of thing I can expect would be pricey!

By the way - the warning label is right in a sense - be very careful with the jumpers! Bending pins on those made the drives very testy rather quickly. These things were basically bombproof but if they got bad inputs on the jumpers the controller would freak out and do weird things, causing a lot of strange malfunctions. It was an easy fix if you knew to look for it - but only if!

Maybe I should try renaming it?

Back then peripheral hardware was cross compatible with basically any other computer so long as you had an interface. You would see parts from apple 2gs inside PC's all of the time. Same thing in reverse. Then the PowerPC came out with RISC, and that's when apple and IBM/pc started their first incompatibility phase. That only lasted for about a decade, and after the ipod success apple poured the profits back into their own PC market, and this time they just used the same parts as everyone else. That went on until just recently, like two years ago I think. One tidbit though, back then apple would install their own firmware and like MS before them if MacOS was not detected the hardware would slowly corrupt the Non-Mac OS. So if you were trying to build a new machine from a broken apple and a broken PC, you usually had to solder new off the shelf controllers/firmware roms on the hardware PCB to avoid that problem. Recently apple abandoned intel/CISC and is going with SOC/RISC processors again. (I'm not sure who's building their processors these days) Either way, I don't fix apple computers, apple sues people who do that without going through their CRAP (Certified Repairman for Apple PC's) course. In the last three years, I have successfully taken as many customers from apple as I possibly can. I put all the broken apple products in my crucible and smelt the PM's out of them. That's the only thing valuable in an Apple Product anyway. Final Cut is just childs version of video editing, and the only reason hollywood uses it, is because of the kickbacks so.....

Please don't tell me you pronounce it as Ess Cee Ess Eye. "Scuzzy" is the correct pronunciation as per ANSI, who ratified the standard.

Soon you'l bee telling the world that you speak English as well *gasp*

Yup; all the cool games were on Amiga and PCs with VGA, whereas the Mac saw a lot of edutainment games since so many of them were in schools (much like the Apple II before it).