What do you think? Should I bid?

Price is great. Is it SCA drive?

That looks like one of the drives from the Storageworks "universal" drive enclosures but removed from the universal mount/carrier. I think do, indeed, use SCA interfaces (the hot-swap feature leads me to believe that anyway). And that's a ridiculously low price. Too bad it's quantity 1 and limited to UK buyers only.

miium I want his one, can I overbid you?
Hmmm however be cautious when you bid about SCSI hdd. I worked in a ebay shop that was selling old stuff from bankrupt companies and 9 out of 10 SCSI they were selling were busted (they were knowing it but they were selling it anyways, then claiming it has been broken in the shipment.... I haven't stayed there for long).
Companies like to kill their hdd to make sure no one will be able to retrieve informations from it.

Thanks it seems to be a private seller though Half_Elf

That is bound to be an SCA drive. Which is not a problem, of course.

The price is absolutely stellar but of course there are two days to go before the auction ends.

The listing doesn't say if the drive is new; you shouldn't buy a used drive. You also should make sure you can trust the seller.

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I just looked again and the listing does say the drive is new. Who builds the HP drives? Anyone know?

Anybody know?

I have an old HP scsi drive that is in fact a western digital. But I suppose this could have changed since then

I can look at one tomorrow at work. The same exact drive, I believe. There ought to be an identifying mark on it somewhere.

I know the older DEC StorageWorks drives were either DEC manufactured (which meant they were pretty old) or they were Seagates (Hawks and Barracudas). Some of the later ones were marked as Compaqs but I believe those are Seagates as well. I have an old Compaq 18GB SCA drive that went all flaky on me some time ago -- not sure why I still have it laying around -- and it has at least one large chip on the electronics board that's marked "Seagate / Lucent".

Thanks Half_Elf. That would be great rnturn cheers.

Some years ago, I purchased a surplus SCA SCSI drive (9.1 gigs, back when 9.1 gigs was something). This drive was billed as a Quantum. It arrived in DEC packaging and was in fact a Quantum drive. I am still using it, although now it is the slowest drive in my box.

How much do you think it's worth?

Six months ago I purchased a new HP 73.4GB ATLAS10K3_73_SCA drive for $179 and thought it's a good deal.

What is it worth? Best price I'm seeing around here right now for a comparable drive (size, speed, and transfer rate) is $285 for a Seagate. That would be on the order of £150.

Thanks Emerson and jim