Micropolis MicroDisk™

DRIVE SERIES SPECIFICATIONS

"MicroDisk"-Series of external SCSI hard disk drive enclosures

Model Number	670		1030		1340
Variant	670/PC	670/Mac	1030/PC	1030/Mac	1340/PC	1340/Mac
Capacity	685MB (765MB)		1036MB (1203MB)		1341MB (1535MB)

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Overview

The Micropolis MicroDisk™ series of drives is an early model-family of simple external SCSI HDD enclosures (storage subsystems) slightly predating the more elaborate "stackable" Raidion LT and LS SCSI "towers". MicroDisks were offered either with a drive pre-installed or less often as empty enclosures for customers to populate with a Micropolis 3.5" "slim-line"/half-height (model 670) or 5.25" "full-height" SCSI drive (model 1030 and 1340). MicroDisk enclosures were available in hardware variants for PC and Macintosh computers with SCSI1 or SCSI2 compatibility respectively. The indivdual model numbers are derrived from the usual capacity.

Due to how legacy documentation was laid out, these enclosures are also listed in our "Hard Drives Support" section here on micropolis.com and in some documentation elsewhere on the Internet.

MicroDisk series

Micropolis used the "MicroDisk™" model name on a number of products over the years. In 1979, the early 1200 series 8-inch hard-disk drives were sometimes called MicroDisk, but later the same year the name was mainly used for an external storage subsystem that incorporated these HDDs (8" MicroDisk). Then, during the early 1990s a series of simple external storage subsystems (described on this page) inherited the MicroDisk name. When the Raidion series of stackable SCSI subsystems was introduced shortly after, an early production run was also labeled MicroDisk.