Behold - an exquisite (yes, that's right, exquisite) specimen of the SupraDrive with glorious Amiga branding.
And I know a lot of you will look at this and raise and eyebrow and wonder if I've completely lost it, but hear me out.
FIrst, the aesthetics.
The SupraDrive (with Amiga branding) external hard disk is a near-perfect color. Realistically it's a little long unless you stack it on top of your 1000's case. If you use it with a 2000 it's just fine, of course.
It could be used with the 500, 1000 or 2000 very easily. In the 1000's case, it would need to pop up top. Then, you could go really nuts and stack your second floppy drive on top of that potentially. The only "ding" I could possibly throw at it would be the border radii on the case corners, but I can live with that.
It also sports two LED lights, which - if you have the original SupraDrive install software and icons - they show in the icons on your Workbench desktop. Very cool!
And this particular specimen has an 99% perfect case, which is all metal by the way. It has 4 screws which hold the top of the metal housing to the rest of it. And check this out (geek alert!) the four screws have been painted to match the case!
I very carefully opened this bad girl up and she looks totally new inside.
Now, I don't know if she works. I hope she does, but I really have no idea. Looks like I am going to have to get some sort of SCSI adapter to use the original cable with my Microbotics SCSI port. Although I may try to hook it up to my 2000 first just to see if it will fire up over there (the machine where most everything works without much effort - 2000 FTW!).
And lordy - if it doesn't work, the internal guts are so proprietary... But if it does? Holy crap. I could hook this bad boy up, and potentially daisy chain the Zip behind it for a whopping 120MB! Aw yeah.
Ancient classic "obsolete" hardware for the win. I just love it. And it makes my retro battlestations just look amazing!
I know. I know! I'm weird. But I've wanted one of these for a very long time and have been actively searching for over two years. And I have seen others, but I never got close. It was always after the fact. As soon as I learned of one, it was already gone. They always slipped through my grasp...