Kbase Article of the Week: Macintosh SE, SE/30: Possible Combinations of Internal Drives →

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This week’s support document looks to answer the following questions:

What are the possible combinations for the internal drives on a Macintosh SE and SE/30?

Turns out, there are a lot of them:

The Macintosh SE chassis is capable of holding two 3.5-inch storage devices. The Macintosh SE and Macintosh SE/30 logic boards use the same amount of space in the Macintosh SE chassis. The Macintosh SE/30 logic board has only one internal floppy-drive connector.

Just look at this glorious list of possible combinations:

  • Macintosh SE logic board; one 800K floppy drive.
  • Macintosh SE logic board; one Apple SuperDrive (formerly Apple FDHD).
  • Macintosh SE logic board; two 800K floppy drives.
  • Macintosh SE logic board; two Apple SuperDrives.
  • Macintosh SE logic board; one 800K floppy drive, one 3.5-inch hard drive.
  • Macintosh SE logic board; one Apple SuperDrive, one 3.5-inch hard drive.
  • Macintosh SE/30 logic board; one 800K floppy drive.
  • Macintosh SE/30 logic board; one 800K floppy drive, one 3.5-inch hard drive.
  • Macintosh SE/30 logic board; one Apple SuperDrive.
  • Macintosh SE/30 logic board; one Apple SuperDrive, one 3.5-inch hard drive.