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Western Digital Caviar collection - Spin up/down of 19 vintage hard drives
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2024
- Spin up & down of the 19 vintage Western Digital Caviar hard drives in my collection.
Dates: Jun 14, 1992 - Mar 13, 1998
Drives featured:
(in order from smallest to largest capacity)
Caviar 280
Caviar 1210
Caviar 2340 (x2)
Caviar 1365
Caviar 2420
Caviar 2540
Caviar 2700
Caviar 2850
Caviar 11000
Caviar 21000
Caviar 31200 (x2)
Caviar 21600
Caviar 22400 (x2)
Caviar 32500
Caviar 33100
Caviar 34300
If you have any questions, please comment down below.
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Thanks so much for watching and I hope you enjoyed!
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UPDATE: My Caviar 1365 died last night (1/28/24) and now has the click of death. RIP
Rip
Heh, sounds like my caviar 2850. Worked for a bit, then it failed as i was testing it after it sat for a couple months. Just suddenly started failing. The culprit ended up being head failure.
@@XL-Tech I’m thinking that’s what killed mine too. I was running a wdat_ide.exe scan. (It’s a program that reallocates bad sectors) And it started clicking and by the end of the scan it was over. Hopefully my 2850 doesn’t do that, it’s one of my favorite drives.
Caviars are some of my favorite drives. They sound great.
Totally agree! They have such an iconic seektest and look really nice. I also like how you can easily decode the model numbers. They tell you platters and capacity.
I oddly enjoy these hard drives that have 2 "gears" like in a MT car
Ah, the 2850. Finally found mine, has someone's 95 + DOS 6.22 install w/ Ontrack installed and IIRC, Volkov Commander as well.
Funny fact: mine was refurbed from a 2700 apparently... I peeled the 2850 sticker and a crossed out 2700 sticker was underneath lol
Speaking of old drives, one of the Quantum drives (a 635AT that came out of a Compaq, according to the stickers on it) I featured as having issues in my "HDD Collection" video kinda healed itself somewhat. HD Sentinel now reports 85% health, and it can access past 310MB without issues. A few sectors were relocated (yea, this thing supports SMART. Quite the surprise!) but nothing too bad.
On the other hand, a Conner CFA270A has taken its "death" place. That thing has zero accessible sectors, despite completing seektest.
The 2850 is really nice. I remember hearing it was closely related to the 2700 so I guess that explains the refurb. Is it a weird hybrid of sorts or is it fully like a 2850? Sorry to hear about your Conner, they are starting to fail very frequently these days.
1:48 that sounds like my Toshiba 2.5 4200 rpm 1998 hard drive
Nice collection though!
I had a caviar 33100 but it had a head failure.
The disk had no bad sectors and no slow sectors.
Having no bad sectors is actually quite rare! The media on caviars of this era is awful. Unfortunate to hear it failed in another way. These drives are extremely unreliable.
Great video! I forgot the Caviar 22400 was even a model haha. All of these sound pretty great except for the 31200 that sounds like it is ready to blow the bearings apart and lock up, that is the worst I've seen almost like some pieces in the motor are misaligned. Another one of my favorites was the Caviar 11000, I've been trying to get one myself for awhile now with no luck. Really like that you showed the broken drives as well, nice job! All of these are in really nice physical shape too externally. Also that Caviar 22400 made on August 15th, looks like quality control was slacking quite a bit for part of the color on the stripe to run out and they still shipped it out lol.
Thank you so much! I highly recommend the 11000. It looks and sounds great and seems to be reliable too. Hopefully you can find one! I got mine untested and it works perfect with no bad sectors. The 31200 bearings are quite an unusual case. It sounds almost crunchy. I’m definitely going to open it up and look inside.
@@antequated.archive From the few examples I've seen, for the most part indeed! I appreciate the good luck, maybe one will decide to show up soon haha. Glad to see another Caviar 11000 around, they really aren't too common which is why they are pretty difficult to track down for a good price. if one shows up untested for a reasonable price, I'll take the gamble.
Yeah would be awesome to see what is causing all the noise on the 31200, also does it vibrate really bad or not really? Usually when bearing start to sound worn out, they vibrate more, and if they are super worn out, they vibrate a bunch and make all kinds of noise. Let me know how it goes, shame the drive isn't usable in that state, unless the bearings are making it harder for the drive to read which would not be all that surprising since I don't know how the drive would get that bad under normal use..
@@cdos9186 It does vibrate a lot. The vibrations definitely could be interfering with function. It took 30 min to scan 5% of the drive in MHDD. Everything was red and x’es.
@@antequated.archive Yeah something isn't right with that drive to say the least, almost like the motor got out of alignment, I have never heard a typical worn out spindle sound THAT bad, it could've been dropped and changed the position of the bearings and hub inside the spindle itself causing that issue. That sucks to hear....
I do like the style & seektest of these mid-90's Caviars!
Same! That’s why I have 21 lol
@@antequated.archive I am now collecting these as fast as I can and the prices people ask for them who inherited them from yard sales or deceased estates is crazy cheap.
31200 sounds like it's been used as a fryer for fries
I like the sounds of the non-working 31200’s bearings, has a lot “deeper” sound than the other working one, maybe it’s been dropped and the bearing’s balls have dents on them?
I’m glad you like it! The drive has definitely had physical damage, that’s for sure. There’s no way bearings could get like this through normal use.
My favorite drives are:
2:25 11000-1
Status: Good
Problems: 0/100%
Has a clock motor: Yes
3:39 22400-1
Status: Mediumly good
Problems: 25.6/100%
Has a clock motor: No
3:54 22400-2
Status: Good
Problems: 0.1/100%
Has a clock motor:No
4:39 33100-1
Status: Dangerous
Problems:
80.0/100%
Has a clock motor: Yes
That’s a pretty nice caviar collection! Hopefully you’ll be able to fix that 280, it’s a nice drive.
The "bad" 31200 is mind blowing, how can the bearings be that bad but the drive still manages to spin and passes its seektest…
Thanks! The 31200 did fail its seektest once but it is quite surprising. Also I was wondering, at the end of the model number it says either 00f or 00h. Do you know what the last letter means?
@@antequated.archive I wouldn't know for sure but it seems to indicate some sort of series the drive is part of, sometiemes the same model of drive will have different letters (One I can think of right now is the 21600, most end with H, but SmartBonnie has one that ends in LA which has a different PCB and sounds different). But I don't really know what they are supposed to mean
Your 34300 has a PCB fault or stuck heads, not media failure.
I never thought about that. Do you know of a way I could fix it?
@@antequated.archive You could open the drive and see if it is hard to move the heads, or you can hunt down another Caviar with the model number ending in LB to obtain another PCB.