I really like that Toshiba MK6411MAT. It has a pleasing sound to it, and I love the old Toshiba logo. I should probably try and go for more old Toshiba drives like that since I like them so much but I don't end up buying them even though there are plenty for sale. Glad you at least got one working Ultrastar! Those sound so nice, when they work of course. I found the sounds of the Seagate Cheetah pleasing to listen to as well, awesome the lot went as good as it did!
After listenign to this i realized once again why i hate mechanical drives and rarely use them anymore in my home. That cheeta drive gave some haunting memmories from the late 90's
Well not all of them, the Fujitsus really don’t have much for a seek test (and also they spin but don’t do they seek test without the controller…) but the other ones yeah they are great!
Thank you! Well I’m going to post a daily video until the 24th, and the 24th video might be the last of the year (not 100% sure yet). I think I’ll try to post a bit more regularly in 2025 compared to what I’ve been doing so far though.
The Maxtor with reallocated sectors (alot of them), if the spare sector space gets full, does that trip a SMART failure event saying that the drive needs to be backed up and replaced? I know that they trip when they have too many bad sectors.
I think my Pentium I motherboard doesn’t know about SMART, and my P3 does but doesn’t stop the boot process to warn you. But I ran spinrite on it and got a big red warning that said the drive reported imminent failure so I assume it does consider itself SMART failed.
Great video! Just one question, do you know how is the inside of the Seagate Medalist Pro looks like? I really wanted to know but I can't find it anywhere! Have you seen it?
Well I didn’t until you found what it is on DiskMaster's discord, but now I know I guess. I have another of these of the same model which is also not in perfect health but they both work so I wasn’t going to open one.
Is that IBM Ultrastar one of those that used glass media and GMR heads? The seek test sounds similar to a 75GXP. You answered my question, yes. it does. Wonder what caused it? Did the drive get to hot and it just decided to crash? Or maybe its just how those were, using the glass media, probably a bad idea.
Yeah those use the glass platters and are from the same era as the 75GXP. Now why did it crash, that I will never know, but I guess being server drives, once it did crash I guess it kept running for a while to cause such major damage.
When you receive the drives, give them 24 hours, i ordered a red drive brand new from western digital in California, only waited an hour and im thinking the platters were fogged like a bathroom mirror and destroyed it, had to return it
I know it’s a good idea to wait for the drives to heat up if they were in the cold, but I must say I’ve been impatient and tested straight away most times I got drives and it didn’t seem to matter but it might if the drive was very cold I assume. 24 hours seems like a bit much, but a few hours so it can reach room temperature would probably be nice.
SCSI was the entreprise/workstation interface, while IDE was for the consumer market. I don’t know the technical details but SCSI was faster than IDE at the same time. Each IDE controller can address two drives (usually motherboards have two built in, for 4 drives), while early SCSI could do 7 drives and later versions 15. (Technically 8 and 16 devices, but the controller itself takes one of the IDs, usually ID 7). Some SCSI devices can do hot plug, that wasn’t a thing with IDE. With some exceptions SCSI drives were usually higher end. 10k and 15k drives never made it to IDE, and only one series of 10k drives and no 15k made it for SATA which was the serial replacement for IDE just like SAS was for SCSI.
I had a Cheetah like the first one in this video back in the day. After some use it started making the same concerning rattling noise during spinup - does anyone know what it is?
I assumed it was part of the drive seek test? Unless you mean the sounds of the spindle while it’s picking up speed? I’ve heard similar from a bunch of drives especially 10k/15k ones that have been sitting, I assume the bearings might be a bit dry and/or are starting to go bad. Honestly I think that Cheetah sounds very amazing, the seeking is "crunchy" and incredibly loud, I really like it.
@@arnlol That's exactly what I meant - the spindle noise while it's picking up speed. It wasn't like that from the beginning, so I got a little concerned about it and eventually replaced the drive. It worked fine until the end though.
If you mean that the crash isn’t visible, it actually is if you look closely above the spindle cap around 1/3rd of the way across the platter you can see a faint ring. It’s not very visible even in real life and it’s very hard to take good pictures of damage on hard drive platters.
I'm not even really sure, I just like the way they sound like, and really enjoy the process of testing them. Sometimes there's no real good reason for a hobby aside from liking it I guess. Even when I was a kid I already liked messing with hard drives so...
I really like that Toshiba MK6411MAT. It has a pleasing sound to it, and I love the old Toshiba logo. I should probably try and go for more old Toshiba drives like that since I like them so much but I don't end up buying them even though there are plenty for sale. Glad you at least got one working Ultrastar! Those sound so nice, when they work of course. I found the sounds of the Seagate Cheetah pleasing to listen to as well, awesome the lot went as good as it did!
After listenign to this i realized once again why i hate mechanical drives and rarely use them anymore in my home. That cheeta drive gave some haunting memmories from the late 90's
SCSI hard drives have some nice seek tests for sure!
Well not all of them, the Fujitsus really don’t have much for a seek test (and also they spin but don’t do they seek test without the controller…) but the other ones yeah they are great!
I love your channel bro keep it up
Thank you! Well I’m going to post a daily video until the 24th, and the 24th video might be the last of the year (not 100% sure yet). I think I’ll try to post a bit more regularly in 2025 compared to what I’ve been doing so far though.
@@arnlol Awesome broo can't wait,i found your channel a month ago and i am obsessed with your hard drive videos
The Maxtor with reallocated sectors (alot of them), if the spare sector space gets full, does that trip a SMART failure event saying that the drive needs to be backed up and replaced? I know that they trip when they have too many bad sectors.
I think my Pentium I motherboard doesn’t know about SMART, and my P3 does but doesn’t stop the boot process to warn you. But I ran spinrite on it and got a big red warning that said the drive reported imminent failure so I assume it does consider itself SMART failed.
Great video! Just one question, do you know how is the inside of the Seagate Medalist Pro looks like? I really wanted to know but I can't find it anywhere! Have you seen it?
Well I didn’t until you found what it is on DiskMaster's discord, but now I know I guess. I have another of these of the same model which is also not in perfect health but they both work so I wasn’t going to open one.
Is that IBM Ultrastar one of those that used glass media and GMR heads? The seek test sounds similar to a 75GXP. You answered my question, yes. it does. Wonder what caused it? Did the drive get to hot and it just decided to crash? Or maybe its just how those were, using the glass media, probably a bad idea.
Yeah those use the glass platters and are from the same era as the 75GXP. Now why did it crash, that I will never know, but I guess being server drives, once it did crash I guess it kept running for a while to cause such major damage.
When you receive the drives, give them 24 hours, i ordered a red drive brand new from western digital in California, only waited an hour and im thinking the platters were fogged like a bathroom mirror and destroyed it, had to return it
I know it’s a good idea to wait for the drives to heat up if they were in the cold, but I must say I’ve been impatient and tested straight away most times I got drives and it didn’t seem to matter but it might if the drive was very cold I assume. 24 hours seems like a bit much, but a few hours so it can reach room temperature would probably be nice.
So that's why my HDD is slower than usual, right?
Pretty nice lot :) Shame about the bad PCB on that fujitsu though.
(Istg if this ends up somewhere else than the comment section imma explode)
I'm not too bummed about that one since I have another that works, though I have no idea why my attempted fix didn’t work out.
what are the differences between SCSI and say, IDE hard drives?
interface obviously, and then the fact that scsi drives are enterprise grade which means they max out at 15000rpm while IDE only does 7200
SCSI was the entreprise/workstation interface, while IDE was for the consumer market. I don’t know the technical details but SCSI was faster than IDE at the same time. Each IDE controller can address two drives (usually motherboards have two built in, for 4 drives), while early SCSI could do 7 drives and later versions 15. (Technically 8 and 16 devices, but the controller itself takes one of the IDs, usually ID 7). Some SCSI devices can do hot plug, that wasn’t a thing with IDE. With some exceptions SCSI drives were usually higher end. 10k and 15k drives never made it to IDE, and only one series of 10k drives and no 15k made it for SATA which was the serial replacement for IDE just like SAS was for SCSI.
I had a Cheetah like the first one in this video back in the day. After some use it started making the same concerning rattling noise during spinup - does anyone know what it is?
I assumed it was part of the drive seek test? Unless you mean the sounds of the spindle while it’s picking up speed? I’ve heard similar from a bunch of drives especially 10k/15k ones that have been sitting, I assume the bearings might be a bit dry and/or are starting to go bad. Honestly I think that Cheetah sounds very amazing, the seeking is "crunchy" and incredibly loud, I really like it.
@@arnlol That's exactly what I meant - the spindle noise while it's picking up speed. It wasn't like that from the beginning, so I got a little concerned about it and eventually replaced the drive. It worked fine until the end though.
Nice!
8:03 you had one job
If you mean that the crash isn’t visible, it actually is if you look closely above the spindle cap around 1/3rd of the way across the platter you can see a faint ring. It’s not very visible even in real life and it’s very hard to take good pictures of damage on hard drive platters.
@@arnlol the whole section is in the wrong orientation :/
@@arnlolEven I could see it. That drive is cooked. Don't feel too bad about this other dude
@randomyt666I didnt really see it at first but did notice a ding on the disc. Turns out thats part of the crash
why you are so obsessed with these kinda drivers?
I'm not even really sure, I just like the way they sound like, and really enjoy the process of testing them. Sometimes there's no real good reason for a hobby aside from liking it I guess. Even when I was a kid I already liked messing with hard drives so...