I recently bought this lot of drives from eBay for $15, namely because I thought the Zip drive was cool 😂. Let's test time out, and talk about one serious testing blunder I made, in a 🧵 here!
The first drive: NEC CD-3200A, a 52X drive, but without the typical goofy branding on the front. This drive was not closing right, so I opened it up and cleaned it out, and then tested it. Well, I should have put it back in its casing before testing. 12V to ground killed it.
Next, we have this Samsung CDRW SW-252. It's also a 52X drive. It checks out! And after it did, I gave it a proper cleaning!
Next we have this Asus DRW-0402P/D. It's actually a DVD drive, and a writer too! This will be good to have handy. Anyway, it checks out!
Ok, now for the fun drive, the Iomega Zip100IDE. I loaded up Iomega Guest in DOS, and took this for a spin! The drive looks a little rough, but it works great! No click of death in sight.
Oh! Check out this cool little feature. I wondered what the little metal bar was for on this drive, it's for manual disk eject! I think later models put an eject hole in the back, but this is an internal drive, soo.. 🤣
Alright, well that was fun, minus the stupid casualty. But here we landed, and I'll take it. Thanks for following along!
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