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WeirdStuff Conquest: Jaz 2GB, Full Height ZFP case

WeirdStuff Conquest: Jaz 2GB, Full Height ZFP case Software 14 posts Oct 6, 2013 — Oct 10, 2013

#1 Sun, 6 Oct 2013 - 19:48

WeirdStuff had a brand new in box Jaz 2GB drive (SCSI) and a brand new Full Height ZFP SCSI case for $15.

Just needs one of those giant full heigh HDD face plates. I wonder if I can find a beige one, most of the time they're black.

I have to wonder, though, is it really zero foot print if it's two stories tall?

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#2 Sun, 6 Oct 2013 - 20:21

Neat!

Can that ZFP case house a regular 1/2 or 1/3 height disk?

c

#3 Sun, 6 Oct 2013 - 21:56

Sure.

#4 Sun, 6 Oct 2013 - 22:12

I have to wonder, though, is it really zero foot print if it's two stories tall?

You betcha. If you can't find appropriate blank bezels, I have a two story closed face ZFP box to swap for yours so I can do a removable media drive installation.

#5 Mon, 7 Oct 2013 - 01:16

Ahh, WeirdStuff. I'm looking at taking a trip to the US Real Soon Now™, and intend to swing by the Valley, and while I'm at it, stop by WeirdStuff to do some shopping. Guess I should start thinking about booking the shipping container now...

#6 Mon, 7 Oct 2013 - 16:27

There was also a brand new Jaz 1GB drive there. If anyone is interested, I can pick it up for them. I think it was $10.

#7 Mon, 7 Oct 2013 - 17:26

Ahh, WeirdStuff. I'm looking at taking a trip to the US Real Soon Now™, and intend to swing by the Valley, and while I'm at it, stop by WeirdStuff to do some shopping. Guess I should start thinking about booking the shipping container now...

Schedule half a day. Two hours was not enough time for me to see EVERYTHING in the store.

#8 Mon, 7 Oct 2013 - 19:41

Sounds like my kind of place. Too bad it's so far away.

#9 Tue, 8 Oct 2013 - 01:54

I drove two and a half days one-way to go there. It was worth every penny.

#10 Wed, 9 Oct 2013 - 20:10

Tadaaa! I found a sort of beige colored Seagate FHD face plate at Weird Stuff. A little scratched up, but not too shabby.

I fired it up and it works great. Hasn't been turned on since November 1992.

#11 Wed, 9 Oct 2013 - 20:18

that thing is huge.

you should buy like 5 of those 2.5" ibm eServer drives and make like a bad to the bone scsi raid.

i wonder what mac was the first to support software raid?

or stuff a whole computer in there like a macintosh lc or something

#12 Wed, 9 Oct 2013 - 21:47

or stuff a whole computer in there like a macintosh lc or something

Or leave it as it is and marvel at its large size :O
Great job on the faceplate! I like the two tone look.

How many MB of GB is in there?

It's amazing how far technology has progressed.

c

#13 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 - 00:50

1.2GB Seagate.

#14 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 - 05:13

you should buy like 5 of those 2.5" ibm eServer drives and make like a bad to the bone scsi raid.

I've tried this before with a mismatched set on an AHA-2940UW. Almost 15 drives.

It requires a stupid amount of power and you have to sequence the spinup or you can overload a 15A circuit. It was almost impossible to cable them all together and required some serious praying to the SCSI gods to make it behave.