Hard Drive Sounds: Miniscribe 8425SA
39Manufacturer: Miniscribe (later absorbed by Maxtor, and ultimately Seagate)
Model: MS-8425SA
Date of manufacture: 11 August 1989
Device name: MINSCRIB M8425 - SCSI
Capacity: 20 MB
Rotational speed: 3600 RPM
Interface: 50-pin parallel SCSI
Form factor: Half-height, 3.5-inch
Actuator: Stepper motor
Fully-functional? Nope... I think it may have experienced a head crash. Most (but not all) of the disk cannot be written to, and even read operations randomly have errors.
Origin: Macintosh SE FDHD
Current home: The graveyard
The 8425SA was a SCSI version of the popular MFM 8425. I'm not too familiar with anyone aside from Apple building systems with the SCSI version, but I'm sure it happened.
This particular example was pulled from a Macintosh SE FDHD. The drive just refused to properly write one day (though Macintosh System 6 was still booting and running fine), and it was mere minutes later that the file system failed catastrophically. All that remains is a gloriously late-80s metal shell and some of the most unique hard drive sounds to grace the earth.
Read the history of the Miniscribe 8425: https://www.redhill.net.au/d/11.php
Configuration used:
Dell Dimension 5150 from around 2005 probably. Specs aren't important but it's a Pentium 4 HT 3.0 GHz with 1 gig of RAM.
Adaptec AHA-2930CU PCI SCSI interface
FreeDOS 1.2 from a floppy disk running the HDMotion software.