5.25" enclosure for a Quantum Bigfoot!

The VCR King

The VCR King

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After I get some money this Christmas I am going to get on eBay and buy an old IDE Quantum Bigfoot drive, probably an 8GB one. I've always wanted one of these, and I will be using it for storing basic bullcrap and using it for whatever I end up using it for.

I have found some 5.25 inch IDE enclosures online (I'm looking at this one: http://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Alumi...416173107&sr=8-7&keywords=5.25"+IDE+enclosure) but I want a 5.25 inch IDE enclosure with TWO drive bays, not just one. And, to my luck, I can't find any online.

Does anybody here know of a site that might sell something like this or how I could build one?
 
Out of curiosity, why do you want a Quantum Bigfoot drive? I could understand if you had a vintage machine you wanted to put it in but otherwise you'd be better off with a thumb drive.
 
I've destroyed plenty of them. There's nothing special about them.

You live up to your username.
 
Your best bet might be to grab a 5.25" optical drive enclosure:

http://www.amazon.com/5-25-3-5-inch...sr=8-5&keywords=5.25"+optical+drive+enclosure

http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-NST-53...sr=8-7&keywords=5.25"+optical+drive+enclosure

http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-5-25-I...sr=8-1&keywords=5.25"+optical+drive+enclosure

There's a few more. Obviously make sure they have IDE.

I still don't know why you'd want to do this or spend your Christmas money on this for what will be essentially be a 8GB external hard drive but hey... :rolleyes:
 
Anything about it you find compelling? It seems like you just pick old things at random that you weren't really around to experience. You'd be better off putting that money into something useful for your rig since it's an average build at best.

My mom's old K6 PC had one of those drives, they're really nothing special other than being awkwardly bulky.
 
beers said:
Anything about it you find compelling? It seems like you just pick old things at random that you weren't really around to experience. You'd be better off putting that money into something useful for your rig since it's an average build at best.

My mom's old K6 PC had one of those drives, they're really nothing special other than being awkwardly bulky.
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I just like retro pc equipment, and a Bigfoot is what I want. I will probably go with the Vantec enclosure because a lot of my hard drives and older computers have Vantec cases or parts.

Is there a way to run it without an enclosure, like a usb to ide data cable with a power brick? Could I get a controller and run it off my eSata?
 
You could try and find a PCIe x1 IDE card (some SATA expansion cards had IDE on them too) and then run it off your PSU, but... is it worth it for 8GB?

Why not just get an old PC and stick a Bigfoot in it? Would be easier and then you have a whole retro PC! ;)
 
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You could power brick as above, there are also IDE expansion cards for PCIE so you could run it as an internal drive.

Be careful installing Windows 95 as without the timing patch on SR2 it spazzes out on CPUs over 300 MHz ;)
 
Could you give me an Amazon or newegg link to it?

And no, I do not want to make this an internal drive. I do not have a drive bay free in my case, and I do NOT trust those SATA to Molex power converters!
 
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