External Floppy Drive eBay Score (Atari STE)

I have a look at a 'for parts/not working' external floppy disc drive acquired from eBay for my Atari STE and see what I can do with it.

0:00 Introduction
1:38 Disassembly
3:50 Deducing the PSU
8:50 Trying it out with a Gotek
14:05 Testing on the STE
16:05 Using a real floppy drive
18:14 Trying the shipped drive unit
22:30 Alternatives
30:45 Reassembly & outro

[tiemanowo]

3:36 Few months ago I bought an external drive for my Amiga 500 with the same reason as you (only for a nice case). An I was also surprised that only few wires were populated. Right now I know why. I didn't realize that all of them are GND.

[TanjoGalbi]

I used to have an external drive just like that one for my Atari STFM :)