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Although the video is old, I will write a comment. I have a WD4001FFSX, it is a system disk, noisy - just trash, but in fact it is the same as in the video, only with a red sticker, R/N 1822.
man, I remember having two of these (scraped, ofc) in my dell PC growing up... 20GB each, which was just not enough in the late 2000s, not that the PC would really play games (it had an intel "extreme" graphics thing). but yea.. you practically had to use headphones when using the PC once the bearings were "worn in" on these drives.
I find it odd that Maxtor didn’t make this drive with 4 platters, making it 80gb capacity. Maybe they just couldn’t get it running reliably with all 4 platters @ 7200rpm and 20gb per platter?
Suprising that those 120GXPs still do their seektest. They must not be used very much. As they like to develop bad sectors and headcrashes randomly on their own. The bearings don't sound to bad either! I've taken apart the 60 and 75gb 75gxp drives and they look different than the other models of the 75gxp line. They look more like the ultrastars
They have 22209 and 22280 hours respectively, and the jumpers were set, one as main and the other as a slave. They were clearly used together. The last scan I did early this year on both reported really good health.
The 31200 Drive was one I use to have but I ended up loosing the poor thing due to it being damaged during storage. I wonder if your drive had a PCB fault, as I had one in which was doing the same. It was a 2850, it would do the initial click then wait for the IDE controller to interact before starting its seek test. But it never did, I assumed the fault was sadly damage to one of the chips for listening to the IDE controller. If placed on CS, it would work, but hang terribly. Alongside nearly up to 60% of the drive had bads. :O
It may be worth running the self-tests on the WD4000FYYZ; I have three WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (Black, basically the same drive without TLER and with one less platter), two of which are well-used (6 to 8 years continuous runtime) and likewise have a few uncorrectable sectors (though no reallocations yet), but also failed even the short self-test. For now I've swapped to the third, less-used one (which has no health problems and passes extended self-test). They may well hang in there for a while even after failing the self-test; just limit their use to non-critical files.
The seller i bought this from I have bought from multiple times. They fully test their drives before selling them, and make sure bad sectors don't increase. This drive runs great for me and has been working well.
@@ChrisTech-Games could also be from heat as well, I have a similar 120GB model that has a bunch of reallocated sectors, as well as being pretty hot, but the actuator's not sticking.
@@Mike-77-YT Nice that it is still rocking! These really are great drives, this one has almost 60k hours and seems to have been abused it's whole life and it has only 2 reallocated sectors!
I still remember my unit, dying a slow and painful death from when I found it in August 2021, to me pulling it out to find it finally properly dead in January 2023. A period of just over 1.5 years, although I admit, being stored for most of 2022 forgotten could not have helped.
Seems like my Caviar 33200 is starting to degrade just like this one after sitting, before it had some slow sectors but it is horrendous after sitting for six months unfortunately. Great rose gold on these!
I actually still have a few of those Maxtor hard drives too and I LOVE that good ol' sound like a "mini jet engine" ignited and winding up to idle power! 👍👍
I don't think it's exclusive to Maxtor though, other companies, such as Western Digital and Seagate, had that bearing sound. It's likely more pronounced on the Maxtors because they cheapened out on the ball-bearing spindle motors.
@@Mike-77-YT I think you could be right, Mike! Strangely though, I don't remember ever having a problem with Maxtor drives. Some Western Digital and EVEN MORE Seagate ones definitely yes! Some DID have that "winding up" sound though, like the Maxtors so maybe I just got lucky at the time. 🤔 I think that Seagate actually bought out Maxtor eventually, but I am not 100% sure on that.
@@arthurmann578 yes, seagate did buy out Maxtor, and then they used their name and branding to plaster on some of their hard drives. So if you see a Maxtor hard drive looking like a Seagate barracuda, it's most likely a Seagate barracuda under the Maxtor DiamondMax branding.
@@Mike-77-YToh I know that, was talking about how scratchy and irritating the bearings sound when they wear down. Maxtor definitely cheaped out on the motors they used and the bearings within them that’s for sure.
Glad to see these still working and seem to last a long time! They definitely stood time very well. Nice drives, shame they aren't too common at least some of the Expert models.
Poor drive, these are really nice when working! Also love the style of the casting and design, looks great! I actually had a drive act the same way and it literally took about ten minutes of running and then it seeked, very strange, maybe give it a shot on this one see if it eventually seeks like on of my Caviars did.
Wow oddly enough never seen a really modern WD yet, at least on video, only for sale. Like the new label and all they did on these! WD reliability as well : )
Gorgeous drive. Sorry to hear again how rapidly it's degrading, but the documentation of such a rare model is super appreciated! It really looks awesome :)
I used a regular scanner. This was inspired off of BigBlueBananaBread's scanning idea. I scanned these with an Epson Workforce WF-2850 at 1200DPI, A6 Paper type. It works really well for these.
