CelGen - Those are the Quantum Fireball Hard drives. And they fail at a drop of a hat due to that rotting rubber on the inside of the drive and the head getting stuck on it. But if you can fix that, then maybe there is a chance to keep using one.
BadGoldEagle - who is going to look inside the machine? Antiques Road Show? "Well I see, John, that everything here is period except for the hard drive. Here you are using CF with a SCSI Adaptor to make it functional. That drops the value $5000...." (Note: No disrespect to you!)
Period Drives for the Mac SE & SE\30 were those dreaded Rodine, Conner, Seagate, and Maxstor drives that have the stepper head motor on the outside, which were less than 50MB in size. Later on with the LC II and other systems, the SE & SE/30s and Mac IIcx & IIci, they got the Quantum Drives with 50 to 100MB. They fail too.
You need to balance out what you want. I see this is a very nice machine - a Day Star Accelerator and a color video card - NICE! But as for looks, the bracket that the SCSI Adapter has fits the hard drive bracket in the computer. And if you are good with a dremel tool, you can gut out a dead hard drive and put the CF/SD adapter in that.
The thing is, what are you planning for this SE\30? There lies your answer as to what you should get. The machine would not be "Too Fast." Speed is in the eye of the beholder. With my Mac IIci with the DayStar 040 50MHz accelerator, it takes 30 seconds to do a memory test and a couple minutes to Boot. Without the accelerator, it is over a minute for the ram test and more than 3 minutes to boot. And that's just booting. If you have a Mac Classic - do a ROM Disk Boot, and that is how fast a CF or SD to SCSI adapter should be. Applications and data will load up faster, but that is not a concern.
But If Speed Is An Issue, use a CF to SCSI adapter and use a 100X or slower CF. At 100X, it is about the same speed as a hard drive in terms of data transfers. 75X would be equal to those older slower drives. And at these speeds, you can get them at the 32MB to 256MB size ranges which is period for that time. There are bigger 75X CF if you need more space.
There is more to post, but I'll leave it up to here. Maybe next post.
BadGoldEagle - who is going to look inside the machine? Antiques Road Show? "Well I see, John, that everything here is period except for the hard drive. Here you are using CF with a SCSI Adaptor to make it functional. That drops the value $5000...." (Note: No disrespect to you!)
Period Drives for the Mac SE & SE\30 were those dreaded Rodine, Conner, Seagate, and Maxstor drives that have the stepper head motor on the outside, which were less than 50MB in size. Later on with the LC II and other systems, the SE & SE/30s and Mac IIcx & IIci, they got the Quantum Drives with 50 to 100MB. They fail too.
You need to balance out what you want. I see this is a very nice machine - a Day Star Accelerator and a color video card - NICE! But as for looks, the bracket that the SCSI Adapter has fits the hard drive bracket in the computer. And if you are good with a dremel tool, you can gut out a dead hard drive and put the CF/SD adapter in that.
The thing is, what are you planning for this SE\30? There lies your answer as to what you should get. The machine would not be "Too Fast." Speed is in the eye of the beholder. With my Mac IIci with the DayStar 040 50MHz accelerator, it takes 30 seconds to do a memory test and a couple minutes to Boot. Without the accelerator, it is over a minute for the ram test and more than 3 minutes to boot. And that's just booting. If you have a Mac Classic - do a ROM Disk Boot, and that is how fast a CF or SD to SCSI adapter should be. Applications and data will load up faster, but that is not a concern.
But If Speed Is An Issue, use a CF to SCSI adapter and use a 100X or slower CF. At 100X, it is about the same speed as a hard drive in terms of data transfers. 75X would be equal to those older slower drives. And at these speeds, you can get them at the 32MB to 256MB size ranges which is period for that time. There are bigger 75X CF if you need more space.
There is more to post, but I'll leave it up to here. Maybe next post.