Miniscribe Hard Disk

If this is Full height 10mb Miniscribe, it's built pretty good. I had 2 of them that somehow went bad, done a teardown and saw how solid parts were. Spindle motor is heavy and smooth. I have a comment about miniscribes quality. Later ones like 3xxx, 36xx, 6xxx, and 8xxx, they're gone downhill in quality department. Before Miniscribe got gobbled by Maxtor, they made and sold several 7040/7080 drives and this remarkly kept that same design all the way to around 1.6GB! Maxtor then redesigned wholly new drive afterwards with smaller logic board, no longer used zebera connectors and made packs and heads to handle up to 4 platters. The originals cannot handle more than 2. I saw newer drive 3.2gb type few days ago and I kept my judgement on it for quality and reliablity. Meaning: wait and see. When we needed service for current 7xxx series (couple of years ago or so) and info we called Maxtor and (!!) were told they do not made those logic boards for anything but put together physically. Very questionable! Troll