I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I’d date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.
Weird though that I’d buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.
I have some 500gb IDE drives (maybe 320? its been a while) kicking around in some original xboxes in the shed. A few have 2tb sata installed with adaptors.
I too have some vague memories shucking 1tb IDE drives and installing those in customers xbox too but that’s from 20+ years ago now 😶🌫️
Holy crap, I didn’t realize they kept making the drives large after sata came out. I jumped on that tech real quick once it showed up. IDE was such a pain in the ass for air flow and well making the PC look clean. I remember some people cutting the ide cable so you could roll them into a sleeve vs having a fat ribbon cable.
They still make them.
https://www.cablesdirect.com/store/p/3519.aspx
Only thing I can think of running ide out there are old industrial machines, like CNC stuff…but servers in a DC??? What year is it!?
Lol this is great! It’s even better than the Jumanji one
Ok, please share Jumaji one.
This is the one I’m talking about.