Yeah, I always loved them as a data storage format. Very reliable and would be great for backups! Also, I want people to look at my finished A1200 and go "holy crap, minidisc drive! cool!"

If by some miracle the power connector is the same as a floppy drive, I wonder if it might be possible to steal power from where the internal FDD plugs in. If it needs the big ol' molex connector, that'd be a pain in the arse but not the end of the world. I may well end up using a PC PSU anyway, and there's generally enough molex connectors hanging off them. Getting power to it one way or another shouldn't be too hard - making it look neat and tidy could require some skillz.

I'd much rather the drive was IDE. If I can work with the onboard IDE controller instead of having to mess about finding/affording a SCSI controller for the Blizzard I don't even own yet, that would be preferrable. A splitter/adaptor cable thingy would be much cheaper.